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    Posted: September/21/11 at 8:02am
 
Here is some video of an R53 (first 10 minutes or so) that was racing at ORP last weekend shot from one of the PRO3 cars. Hank Moore is the driver of the MINI (from Deer Park near Spokane) and Chuck Hurley is driving the PRO3 car. Having driven my MINI at the track in the past I always suspected they would run pretty close with a PRO3 car and in fact that looks to be the case. I never ran with R-comps, but suspected that if I did it would make up most of any difference. Looking at the results, Hank's qualifying time at ORP was 1.58.905 vs 1.57.157 for the top PRO3 car. In the race his best lap was a 1.59.347 vs 1.58.425 for the top PRO3 car. Unfortunately for the MINI they are classed (class is SPU) against some cars I suspect they could never beat (Porsche GT3 Cup car, Subie WRX, E46 M3, etc). In fact the winner in SPU was the Porsche GT3 with a 1.45.970. Hopefully someday there will be more chance for the MINI to be more competetive in the classifications or even better there get to be enough of them around they can have there own class. That would be really cool.
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Thanks Martin - very nice! 
That track is a roller coaster. I hope that maybe I will get to drive it next year. 

The MINI performs very well. It looks like the rear end gets a little light through some of those off camber turns....

When I was at Thunderhill last February, I did hear about some interest for creating a MINI race class similar to Pro3, as the R53s drop in cost. 

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Originally posted by CORNERS CORNERS wrote:

Thanks Martin - very nice! 
That track is a roller coaster. I hope that maybe I will get to drive it next year. 

The MINI performs very well. It looks like the rear end gets a little light through some of those off camber turns....

When I was at Thunderhill last February, I did hear about some interest for creating a MINI race class similar to Pro3, as the R53s drop in cost. 
I'd be all over that!
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Cool Martin, brought back some memories.  It's the supercharger that complicates things for the MINI to be placed in a competitive class.  Hopefully time and interest will tell although this is only the second MINI to race in Conference since me. 
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Dang have to wait till I get home to see the video.
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Nice , Thanks Martin, Do you know the mods that Hanks has on the car?
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Originally posted by johnf36 johnf36 wrote:

Nice , Thanks Martin, Do you know the mods that Hanks has on the car?
 
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I'm not sure John, haven't seen his car in person yet. I know that SPU class is modeled after SCCA IT class.
 
 
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