Memories of MITP 2008
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Great Weekend.

Most memorable moments:

Best Race
Paul Wigington versus Paul Webster in the 1320autos Bini. Big burnout from Webster, whilst Wigington patiently waits. Webster hurtles off the line. Wigington gives him a half second advantage and then wipes the floor with him! The crowd actually cheared.

Biggest Shock
The Fentonator standing in the queue for a healthy jacket spud. Short lived however as five minutes later I saw him with a burger in his hand!

Best Performance
Starmag - Hopefully he will tell his own story.

Edited by Paul S on 18th Aug, 2008.

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Stephen Hawking - "The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge."

i didnt see that bini again after that pasting,

tail.... legs.... between....?

good day for me 15.3, then my water pump broke. but managed to get in three runs in the morning and a steady drive home

wish i'd have come back down today now, met starmag in the queue yesterday at the rwyb, then got a race against him and got pasted, lol.

Had a great weekend, apart from the rain waking me up at 5:30 lol

Finally got a chance to put some names to faces, and spoke to Tom very briefly before he ran the DON out on to the track. (I was the one in a green t-shirt with palm trees on it Tom )

Good to see plenty of turbo set ups on the track today.

Was there much racing yesterday? Didn't get there till late.

It was another good showing from TM. Good to see Tom, Carl, Phil & his mates (minds gone blank) again at the traditional JF drink venue!
Finally met up with Matt & Nic....Top lads. Came home with lots of parts! All in all a good weekend and no rain Sunday!
Cheers Phil & Joe for the bits. :)

Edit....I'm sure the lass getting the cars to their lines was winking at me threw those sunglasses!

Edited by Jason G on 17th Aug, 2008.

Thanks to NIc, Ric, Tom Fenton and John K for the chats. Was awesome to meet you guys. Really enjoyed the weekend, just wish I'd have had mine ready.

Enjoyed the weekend, spent a massive £1:50 on new pedal rubbers so a bit skint now. Always good to meet more peeps off here, also well done to starmag. Could not believe it when no one battered an eyelid at his time, dont think anyone really knew what an achievment it was!

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Just got back now wallet is alot lighter. Got lost on the way up even though i drove last year aswell!

some very very nice cars and good to see a fair few turbo'd minis

Weather wise was alot better than i expected

Wish I could have made it!! :(

Was a good weekend. Somehow me and JohnK and the rest of specialist components managed to win the Mini quiz last night whilst half cut then proceeded to try and recite the italian job instead of watching it.

After returning to the hotel, the fire alarm went off at 3.30am! Had a good time and saw loads of you there, just gutted i didn't manage to get the engine done and in.

It will be done soon!!!!

had a great weekend although in my na 1275 ran a 19.0 and managed to break a throttle cable on the strip on saturday and be towed off. Also met Nic, he's very tall ain't he?.

133.5 bhp 123 lb torque 116mph @6640rpm 9.5psi
Shakespear RWYB 14.995 91.83mph

Yep, another top weekend weather wise, we travelled down on sat with Phil and Mike and they should be back by now! We've got that to look forward to tomorrow..
Good to see the usual crew in action on the strip, what were peoples time?

Here for the craic..

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What did starmag do?

Im quite amazed i managed to drive there and back, it was so much fun driving in a convoy!! I must do it again

Yes well done on all the runners that drove and didn't. Great to see friends again, the day went so fast.

Best 1/4 mile 13.2 seconds @116 mph
First 5 port miniturbo to make over 200 bhp on a carb?
First 5 port miniturbo to make over 200 bhp on Injection?

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My mate was up doing dwyb on saturday, said that he saw a blue turbo mini witch carbon boot run a 13.3 and spin in every gear! Sounds like starmags, nice one mate :)

Good weekend as always. Thanks must go to JF for saving me & my crazy mates from the muddy camping & letting us crash at Flannigan Towers ! Cheers John ! :)
Met many of the usual faces & loads of new ones. Pity my car couldn't be there as it's only missed one MITP in 9 years, but i'll make it next year.

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Yup! was another good weekend. best time on the strip i got was 15.3 not so bad i dont think. was the 1st time putting car down the strip with the K engine in. only got a few runs in coz started having problems with my clutch. theres about 1mm of end float on the crank now. so its engine out in the morning!

Thanks again to JF for the bbq and a roof for the night.

yep had a good day managed to get some 13's yoko rubber for £42.50 each, and quickly spoke to fast carl, didnt manged to get a chat with tom, but have a nice chat with nic, that carl is bloody quick, herd about starmags awsome efforts down the strip.

and a quick hello to JF on the stand.

and JF is that natural hair colour or died in used millers ctv lol.

pitty the hog wasnt readey to go down but should be readey for a blast at the coombe.

always looking for them bigger bunches of bannanas

Well looks like my tubro has shit itself! ! I managde a 15.1 with a 97mph terminal on 6psi. By the time I got home I couldn't get much more than 3psi out of it!

Still beat everything I went up against though! lol

Drive home was a good laugh!

Edited by matty on 18th Aug, 2008.

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1/4mile in 13.2sec @ 111 terminal on 15psi

Sounds like you all had fun.

So did anyone go faster than at Avon?

Fastest 998 mini in the world? 13.05 1/4 mile 106mph

i would have made a run but i dident want to rev past 4 and a half grand as the engine is still being run in.

but i got a nice suprise. the engine that i thought was a standard 1275 just rebuilt and had the block skimmed appears to have something like a 286 cam in it.

annoying though as it doesnt hit the power band untill 3750 but i change up at 4500.

i love long duration cams :) im certainly going to build my long stroke turbo with one, i dont mind about not being able to go through town in third ect.

unfortunately i dident manage to speak to anyone from here.

Edited by Sam on 18th Aug, 2008.

I seriously doubt it!

Fastest 998 mini in the world? 13.05 1/4 mile 106mph

sounds like a missed a good weekend,

Interested to hear about starmag..

Matty, what turbo are you using? was it new?

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