Mini me!

My brother and I are learning to drive his new Mini. He's done a couple event's in Jax, one at GCAC and another last weekend at Brooksville.

The GCAC event was my first time in the car and we went 1-2 in HS but he kicked my @$$. I did better at Brooksville and edged him out by < 0.2 sec.

Because we both think that the fastest time will come from a blending of our driving styles, he asked me to sync our runs and post them so we could see what worked where.

He's on the left and I'm on the right, in both.

The GCAC runs...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-r3QjqiFSMs


And the Brooksville runs...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFmGfnaJNIA

Nice! He def kicked your @ss in the first vid but that was awesome for your first time in the car. Very capable little fwd cars those minis are. Thanks for posting.

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Originally Posted by PMoth

Nice! He def kicked your @ss in the first vid but that was awesome for your first time in the car. Very capable little fwd cars those minis are. Thanks for posting.

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For the record I beat his best "clean" time by the same gap he beat me by at GCAC.

However we wanted to use his fastest time (in this case raw +1 cone) to compare to my fastest. At GCAC both of our fastest runs were clean. At Brooksville, he hit a cone just after the start lights. It shortened the course a little for him at the start, but the give-and-take thereafter was very helpful from a learning-curve standpoint.

I still think it's funny that both of us have ~300HP sports cars, yet we are putting a lot of effort into learning how to make his 115hp Mini go fast.:D

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Originally Posted by Z1NONLY

I still think it's funny that both of us have ~300HP sports cars, yet we are putting a lot of effort into learning how to make his 115hp Mini go fast.:D

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Yeah, racing a lower hp car against the clock can be very rewarding when you pull together a really good run.