Mini Spares will be sponsoring three Minis during the Rally. We will also be going along in the support vehicles and will be posting updates & pictures of the team GB progress through the week. Read more
The historic Donington Park was revisited for the final rounds of the 2012 Super Mighty Minis Championship. Unlike any other UK sprint Championship, the penultimate round was to be a night race – as if this championship needed further excitement.
The Mini Spares Driver, Alex Comis, was... Read more
A new adventure for MiniSpares Historic crew Peter Horsburgh with regular navigator Anthony Preston embarked on a foray into Belgian“Regularity“rallying last weekend in their Mini Cooper S (277 BRX).
We were accompanied by one other British crew Geoff Twigg and Graham Carter in their immaculate Alpine Renault A110S, against 66 local crews . Read more
Held in north Wales the rally attracted a full entry of 70 Historic cars competing over regularity sections and special timed to the second tests on Saturday 1st September. We had a brilliant morning and were lying 4th overall at lunch with only our test times preventing a higher placing the mini struggling to match the pace of the Porsches and Escorts . The afternoon was less good with 2 tricky to find controls catching us out and giving us a maximum penalty on 2 regularities . Read more
With a couple of weeks to go, as a new member of Kings Lynn and District MC, I decided to to enter as a club crew for our local HRCR Clubmans Championship round in Norfolk.
Out of the total of 34 crews there were 3 Mini Cooper S’s ,2 Austin 1275GT’s and 1 very smart Wolseley Hornet . The following is his report and I hope it will encourage more MCR members to bring out their cars on Historic rallies. Read more
The long wait for the start of the 2011 Super Mighty Minis Championship ended when the Oulton Park Paddock came alive with the rumble of Mini engines as the hazy April morning Sun slowly climbed in the sky.
Before qualifying our man, Alex Comis in the number 41 Mini Spares car, was keen to get the new season underway. The big change to the cars this year ... Read more
There are several ways to get the latest news and updates from the Mad Dog Rallying team, with Bill Richards and John Morrow on this years Monte Carlo Historique Rally
Rallye Start on Friday 28th January 2011 from
Reims - France - Place du forum
The first is by becoming a fan Facebook
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We are proud to sponsor Bill Richards & Alistair Vines in the Rallye Monte Carlo Historique 2011, with this the 100th Year of the Monte Carlo Rally - it promises to be something special.
We are competing in this fantastic rally in a 1293cc Austin Mini Cooper S - CRX 89B which has an extensive competition history going all the way back to the 1960s Read more
The Super Mighty Minis Championship moved to the recently redesigned and rebuild Anglesey track for the penultimate race weekend of the 2010 Championship. With Comis’ performance over the last few round building, he came to Anglesey with high hopes;
“A podium shouldn’t be out of the question here, though Qualy may be challenging... Read more
Getting the car ready for the first race was not quite the last minute flurry of panicked activity it usually is. Largely because the re-fit and re-furb were kept to a minimum following complete strip re-build plans shot to pieces by tradesmen being somewhat hard to pin down to get very necessary domestic work done.
Most importantly the doors and windows in the garage. The special concertina type front doors have been falling slowly decaying over the past few years.... Read more
I am not sure why, but I don't really enjoy Brands Hatch. It is a quite technically difficult circuit to set fast lap times on. It is most definitely one of those circuits that 'be slow to go fast' applies to.
You can not hustle or hurry it. I am speaking from the point of view of having to use treaded tyres that don't give a tremendous amount of grip. And probably a circuit where 'loose is fast' applies... but I am still building confidence.
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Following the Brands Hatch race, all was well with the car. Just as well – I was playing catch-up with grinding heads after my nice new grinder tool holder fell apart, and it took the makers 4 weeks to get it back to me. That and magazine work and an emergency engine build for a customer. I made enough time to give me a full morning on the car before having to load it up. Nothing bad came to light. As the race was the last day of a 4 day 'jolly'.... Read more
From the beautiful setting and interesting and testing/demanding track that is Cadwell Park to the stark, tedious double drag strip, chain-link fenced edifice that is 'Stalag Silverstone'. Most definitely not a Mini-friendly circuit. The track is not very entertaining at all. Mostly two longish stretched of flat-out with two stops – one a hair pin (Becketts) and one a 'hurry up and wait' series of very, very slow corners that you have to literally trundle round.
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Saturday 26th June 2010 (Round 4)
Grid:-
Pole Position :- Sarah Munns.
2. Kane Astin
3. Endaf Owens
4. Paul Thompson
5. Mark Sims
6. Colin Peacock
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Castle Combe on a wet day is not the nicest place to spend a weekend at, never mind racing in such treacherous conditions.
However Andy Hack showed everyone how to master the torrid conditions by posting a qualifying time 1.4 seconds better than his nearest rival, Paul Thompson. Robert Howard made an impressive 4th on the grid in only his 6th race. At the start with black clouds looming the 18 car grid readied itself , Andy Hack made his one and only mistake of the weekend by not selecting first gear! His bad start made the rest of the pack scramble around him leaving... Read more
From the tight, twisty and undulating challenges of Cadwell Park, the Super Mighty Minis Championship moved on to the super fast, wide open and flowing track of Snetterton, Norfolk, for rounds two and three.
After the disappointment at Cadwell, Comis was keen to get his Championship challenge back on track at... Read more
The Classic Rally Association -2009 Poppy Rally 21/22 March
Over 60 classic rally crews travelled to Ypres on 20th March to enjoy a fantastic rally around the tight roads and farm tracks in the most famous rallying territory in Belgium. The mainly British entries were mixed with a dozen crews from Belgium and Holland , and were to tackle a total of 565 kilometres over the 2 days and a night. Several Mini crews were entered.... Read more
The 2009 Super Minis Championship kicked-off at the most technical and demanding of circuits; Cadwell Park.
Set in the idyllic hills of Lincolnshire, Cadwell is an aggressive rollercoaster of a track that demands total respect and commitment; get it right, and it’s one of the most rewarding experiences, get it wrong and it can bite with terminal ... Read more
The 2009 series got underway at Rockingham on a cold blustery spring day that didn’t help much to heat up the tyres not to battle against the strong headwind.
However Andy Hack claimed pole position from Ralph Saunders who managed his fastest time on his first flying lap! Mark Smith lined up behind Andy Hack. Mark Smith looked very quick with what sounded like a very powerful ... Read more
At precisely 8.54pm on Friday 30th January, PRX 720B, the Morris Mini Cooper S of the Minispares-Mad Dog Rallying team roared off the podium in Reims town square and headed for Monaco. The build up to this moment had been simply amazing. Every year more and more spectators, press and rally fans turn out for this event. At scrutineering and later when we were parked in Reims city centre ready for the start it was sometimes difficult to ... Read more
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