David Vizard's - Silverstone track record set with his 1293cc Mini

[mab01uk]

"In this, episode 46 of Powertec 10, David Vizard tells how Hi-tech and circumstances led to him setting a record at one of England's premier race track, namely Silverstone, that will probably never be broken. Not by even the F1 brigade and all done with a really slick 1293 Mini Cooper 'S'. At this point in time, that is before viewing the video, you will never guess, not even in a hundred years, how this came about."

David Vizard's - Silverstone track record set with his 1293cc Mini:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elPuVP3OzTE





David Vizard Performance - More videos on the DV You-tube channel:-
https://www.youtube.com/user/marvingvx1/videos

[Exminiman]

Thanks for the post, this Mini and DV were pretty much the reason I got interested in Minis, I doubt if I am alone in this....

[mk1]

You aren't

[Pete]

Blimey I thought it was Tales Of The Unexpected for the first few minutes.

[mab01uk]

Here is the beam axle mentioned in the video developed by DV and Don Loughlin of Aldon Automotive...

[AndyPen]

A strange presentation style but a great story. I wonder how many reshoots he had to do with al that editing!!!

[mk1]

That beam axle is strikingly similar to the examples produced by Harry Ratcliffe some 10 years earlier.

[Ronnie]

He has made a neat job of the brake pipes routing

[mab01uk]

A strange presentation style but a great story. I wonder how many reshoots he had to do with al that editing!!!

DV posted online on his facebook page in 2020 that he had undergone emergency brain surgery and that since then he has had various issues getting things done and forgetting things, so he changed to doing more video production and less writing. Back in the 1980’s when DV was publishing his monthly 'Mini Tech News' he started spending the winter months in the USA and summer in the UK as doctors advised him that he needed to escape the damp UK winter climate to improve respiratory problems caused by grinding cylinder heads over many years.
https://en-gb.facebook.com/DavidVizardAuto/

David Vizard - 'Mini Tech News' Index 1980-83:-
https://mk1-forum.net/viewtopic.php?t=33492

[AndyPen]

A strange presentation style but a great story. I wonder how many reshoots he had to do with al that editing!!!

DV posted online on his facebook page in 2020 that he had undergone emergency brain surgery and that since then he has had various issues getting things done and forgetting things, so he changed to doing more video production and less writing. Back in the 1980’s when DV was publishing his monthly 'Mini Tech News' he started spending the winter months in the USA and summer in the UK as doctors advised him that he needed to escape the damp UK winter climate to improve respiratory problems caused by grinding cylinder heads over many years.
https://en-gb.facebook.com/DavidVizardAuto/

David Vizard - 'Mini Tech News' Index 1980-83:-
https://mk1-forum.net/viewtopic.php?t=33492

Thanks for that insight - I didn’t know - so well done DV