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Hi, my mate and I were chatting yesterday about racing, and as we both own minis we thought it would be an easy starter car. We both go to the same uni, and after some persuasion our head tutor has agreed to let us try and start a society, which will give us some funding, and we have also got preliminary interest/sponsorship from the uni's own racing team, UH Racing.

So while my friend is off looking at starting cars, my job is to try and find a class/championship to race in.

I know several people on here do hill-climb events, so i thought this would be a good place to ask, so i did a search but couldn't see anything specific.

So my questions are; what do you think the best starting point would be for us?

Thanks,

Mike

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Well hill climbing is a good starting point. Have a look at the hill climb and sprint association, link below.

Or even better get alng to an event to spectate.

http://www.twin-turbo.co.uk
http://www.hillclimbandsprint.co.uk/default.asp

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Find your local MSA motor club an see what they do. Autosolos and autotests are good starter disciplines that can be done on a very low budget with standard cars.

There is also Go Motorsport, this is the MSA series for getting into motorsport.

http://www.gomotorsport.net/en-GB/default.html

http://www.twin-turbo.co.uk
http://www.hillclimbandsprint.co.uk/default.asp

A man without a project is like a like a woman without a shopping list.

Thanks for the info, managed to contact the Green Belt Motor Club, to see if they do any suitable events.

Hopefully by October i'll have a team and a car together.

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Could do Rally cross :)

The big advantage from sprints/ hillclimbs (not speaking from experiance, ben prob can ) is that it will be a lot cheaper to do simply as your just racing for the clock rather than side by side on circuit, so you wont get shunted off etc and in throry have un expected costs.

rick

Plus the sprints/hillclimbs have a road car class, so you can pretty much race in your road car.

Although not 100% sure what the rules are on engine swaps etc. But if it still has an A-series, cant see there being an issue

9.85 @ 145mph
202mph standing mile
speed didn't kill me, but taxation probably will

The a series engine isn't the problem, it's the forced induction

Just looking for a cheap 1275 on eBay at the moment

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Currently, to run a 1275 turbo mini in hillclimbing is not really possible. There is no class.

Next year there is likely to be a change in the rules to enable you to run in modified production classes up to 2000cc.

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

9.85 @ 145mph
202mph standing mile
speed didn't kill me, but taxation probably will

Ahh sorry, i've confused even myself.

Depending on what sort of racing we do, we'll either be doing hillclimbs/sprints, in which case we'd build another 998 turbo.

but we've also been looking at the mini se7en s class circuit racing, in which we'd be racing a basically standard 1275.

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The current msa rules for speed events do not allow a car to run outside of its capacity class. This means as a mini was never built over 1400cc it can't run in the up to 2000cc class. This is just the rules. As wil said there are moves to change this. Hence why very few people here hill climb and sprint. When the rules change there will be excuses.

http://www.twin-turbo.co.uk
http://www.hillclimbandsprint.co.uk/default.asp

A man without a project is like a like a woman without a shopping list.