1960 / 70's Mini Racing Photos

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Last ones

[mab01uk]

Richard Longman, Geoff Wood & Gerry Marshall.
Forward Trust, Mallory Park 1973
https://www.facebook.com/thesportingmin ... =3&theater

[mab01uk]

Geoff Wood’s (‘the Mad Monk’) Ford powered Vita-Mini
https://www.facebook.com/thesportingmin ... =3&theater

[mk1]

This is how this one started out.

Same car a good few years earlier.

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[mk1coopers]

SRP 1 is now on a 2010 Land Rover, wonder if still in the same family that raced the Mini

[Mikethepipe]

SRP 1 is now on a 2010 Land Rover, wonder if still in the same family that raced the Mini

NO SRP1 isn't in the same family my uncle scrapped the car in 87 I think he said and surrender the number

[mk1]

Welcome to the forum Mike

[mab01uk]

Just about every modified car mag used to have the ad below!

"Why not be 'exhausted' by Mike the Pipe?"
http://www.performance-cars-directory.c ... e-the-pipe

I briefly worked for the car dealers opposite 'Mike the Pipe' in Carshalton Beeches back in the 1970s, some interesting cars used to visit his workshop.
https://forums.autosport.com/topic/89208-mike-the-pipe/

[mab01uk]

Nice photo of Richard’s Downton Engineering Mini from 1969 with accompanying silverware.
https://www.facebook.com/longmanracing/ ... =3&theater

[UHR850]

Great picture thanks for sharing

Kees

[mab01uk]

Geoff Wood, 999cc Weslake 8-port

[trevorhp]

Those look remarkably like OE TJ throttle bodies, not the Special Vita short bodies for the Gp5 cars where the std bonnet had to close (just).

[mk1]

Woodies car was usually a 1293.

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[mab01uk]

Not Mini...but Geoff Wood - Mk1 Hart Escort Special Saloon 'Barn Find' is an interesting read, restoration ongoing:-

The Original Mk1 Spaceframed Ford Hart Escort Special Saloon of Geoff Wood. Stuck 25-30 ft on a rack in a barn for 40 years!
https://tentenths.com/forum/showthread.php?t=151226

Description & Photos:-
http://www.spec-r.co.uk/race-rally-rall ... -38-detail

[mab01uk]

Back to his Minis...



Geoff Wood, Mallory Park coming into the hairpin 1972/3.
The engine in the purple Mini was a short crank 1300cc Holbay Ford (too short as it was a regular conrod wrecker !),
according to Geoff's son.

[mab01uk]

Geoff Wood...the Clubman fronted car was a whole different ball game !
(according to Geoff's son)
https://tentenths.com/forum/showthread. ... 26&page=15

[MiNiKiN]

Austin Cooper S formerly 932GYE with then not yet so famous owner.

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and here in the same car on the way to his first podium place in his first race.

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1968 Andreas Nikolaus Lauda starting his career in his Mini, previously owned by Fritz Baumgartner.

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[mab01uk]

Minisprint - 1972 Targa Florio - Malltese racer: Joe Anastasi
The idea for this Mini came from both Neville Trickett's cars and the British Hill Climb championship winning Mini of the late Geoff Goodliffe.
In fact it was even painted in the same purple as Geoff's car.

[mab01uk]

Malltese racer Joe Anastasi still races a 'John Bull' Mini and visited the Brands Hatch Mini Festival in 2019.....

Motorsport Magazine (Aug 2019)
“Three weeks on, it was a cocktail of short circuit and even shorter wheelbases for the latest Mini Festival, examples of which have been staged at several MSV venues – and on the evidence of this they ought to consider arranging more. The curiously-titled Fastest Mini in the World races attracted a modest grid of (mostly) modified cars, a throwback to the days when extravagant sculptural flourishes were a feature of all racing paddocks. Local man Bill Richards triggered a few grumbles in 2016, when he won both heats at the wheel of what was ostensibly a Metro. This year he triumphed in the first race using the same chassis, but it is now cloaked beneath a Mini Traveller body and so nobody minds. Harvey Death (pronounced ‘Deeth’) won the second, abetted by possibly one of the largest rear wings that has ever been attached to a small car (plus the poke of a 2.8-litre Powertec V8).
A blown engine precluded Maltese racer Joe Anastasi’s intended participation, but he and his brother Dave turned up anyway to watch. An enthusiast of the old school, Anastasi used to make a 10-hour boat pilgrimage to Sicily (“It’s five times faster nowadays, much easier”) to watch the Targa Florio – and his command of Italian made him a useful ally for visiting British drivers.
“In 1970,” he says, “John Chatham seemed to be having trouble with the scrutineers, who insisted his MG should have four cylinders rather than eight. “I intervened to explain that this was an MGC, not a B, and they eventually allowed him to take part – though they placed him in the three-litre prototype class, against Porsche 908s and stuff. I don’t think he was too bothered; he just wanted to compete…”
Back in the modern world, contemporary MINIs provide close racing but don’t share the eloquent body language of their lower-case counterparts.
Se7ens and Miglias have been UK racing staples since 1966 and 1970 respectively, but antiquity cannot dilute their infinite appeal – nor their capacity for eight-car lead battles.
There is presently much bluster about the technical direction Formula 1 should take beyond 2021. If Liberty Media covets close racing, the Mini Se7en Racing Club can probably assist.”
https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/arti ... breakfasts