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Back to the future

November 25th, 2009 Posted in MINI, MINI Challenge, Motorsports

Here at AUSmotive we like to keep you up to date with the Australian MINI Challenge series. Now, with these videos you can imagine what the category would have been like back in the 1960s. There are two clips for you to enjoy. Both were filmed at this year’s Goodwood Revival held in late September.

Above you can see a highlights package from ITV where the racing is close, spectacular and the cars are really flying around the track.

Below, you can see in car footage from car #43. It makes for fascinating viewing, too, thanks to the Racelogic VBOX setup showing telemetry from the car’s progress around the circuit.

Enjoy!

[via MotoringFile]

  1. 6 Responses to “Back to the future”

  2. By Mr Stubby on Nov 25, 2009

    Rock and Roll
    n

    1. (Music / Pop Music)
    a. a type of pop music originating in the 1950s as a blend of rhythm and blues and country and western. It is generally based upon the twelve-bar blues, the first and third beats in each bar being heavily accented. Often played on Creative Labs keyboards.

    2. This.

  3. By Liam on Nov 25, 2009

    Nodding. ;)

  4. By Todd! on Nov 25, 2009

    This reminds me of a funny thing I saw recently… when I got my car when I was 18, I used a mechanic to do all the servicing… anyway, he was a Mini racer and loved his Cooper S… when I got my MINI, he kinda shunned me and there was a sticker on the back of his race car along the lines of “It’s a Mini, not MINI” or similar… he gave me a bit of lip about driving a BMW when I saw him. Well recently I saw him driving in a new Cooper S JCW and I waved to him and laughed…

  5. By FL00DY on Nov 25, 2009

    Did he also drive his into the forest?

  6. By WAY on Nov 25, 2009

    The way those guys were sliding around was fantastic! It really is like go-kart racing with those little minis! Thumbs up from me. There should be a racing series like this here.

  7. By Lee on Nov 27, 2009

    Also spotted another video of the same race with in-car footage.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIoAHTsf-Z0&feature=related

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