1980 / 90's Mini Racing Photos

[Pete]

When I photographed it it carried the Belgian National Racing Yellow colour. What does it look now?

46 pages on it here!

http://mk1-forum.net/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=8760

[r.tec]

I saw the Robinson/Blackney Unipower at my very first race, aged only 13, the 1000km Nürburgring 1970. I unfortunatly did not take my old Agfa Isolette with me. Only the second race, the 6h touring cars that year I made some rather bad pics with it.

CCR '98

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http://www.pro-steilstrecke.de/500km/nu ... n_1970.php

[mab01uk]

The Mini Se7en Racing Club built a Mini 7 from scratch for a raffle.

More details below of the Mini 7 Race Car Build @ Mini 40 Silverstone 1999, as organised by my brother Steve Bell for the Mini Se7en Racing Club.

[rpb203]

r.tec Brilliant Unipower picture.
Do you have any more that you have that you can post?
Cheers
Gary

[r.tec]

r.tec Brilliant Unipower picture.
Do you have any more that you have that you can post?
Cheers
Gary

Obviously I forgot this one, CCR '96:

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[rpb203]

Thanks,
I think that was when Roland Petit had the car and ran it in a few races.
Do you have any pictures of the Blankley/Robinson car by any chance?
Many thanks
Gary

[r.tec]

No, I'm afraid I haven't. You see, I was 13 years old and this was my first race altogether as a spectator. I had an old camera from my uncle, an Agfa Isolette ( that was probably older than myself https://www.flickr.com/photos/alf_sigaro/1799585165) but I did not take it to the Ring. Only on my second visit I took it with me. The photos weren't good but still a historic artefact now: http://touringcarracing.net/Pages/p%201 ... gring.html

[r.tec]

I have gone through all my pictures on my PC. I have found one of the Robinson-Unipower but it is not one that I shot. Do not know who made it.

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1970 1000km 512M und Unipower GT kl.png

[mab01uk]

[BAD942B]

Here is a well known Irish Marcos, that a mate & I rebuilt over a few weeks in the winter of 97/ 98, when we lifted the chequer plate bolted on to the floor pans the car was virtually in 2 halves so we stripped the shell, hung it upside down from the roof beams of an industrial unit & repaired the shell.
When I 1st looked at the car with a view to getting it to handle & drive well it had RWD Escort wheel fitted.
This photo is from Fermoy hillclimb in 98, a round of the dunlop hillclimb championship.
The other 2 photos of the rear of the car are from the late sixties IIRC

[mab01uk]

[mab01uk]

Peter Wartenberg closely followed by Bill Richards,
Thruxton - 1985 Wendy Wools Special Saloon Championship
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=17 ... 6285136351

[r.tec]

Well, no photos but a movie film. Event: the 1987 supporing STT-race (special touringcar trophy) of the 24h Nürburgring. Soaking rain during pratice and the race. Online for a few weeks now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nEH7yty_eg&t=2239s
Mini at these time stamps: 4:14; 10:23; 15:52; 23:46; 24:30; 25:51; 33:15
Perhaps you like it.

[MiNiKiN]

Well, no photos but a movie film. Event: the 1987 supporing STT-race (special touringcar trophy) of the 24h Nürburgring. Soaking rain during pratice and the race. Online for a few weeks now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nEH7yty_eg&t=2239s
Mini at these time stamps: 4:14; 10:23; 15:52; 23:46; 24:30; 25:51; 33:15
Perhaps you like it.

I like it. Although on this long Nordschleife track I prefer the monstrous E21 or M1-Beamers, or the 930 Turbo-Porsches.
In the early 90ies my ex-boss (of infamous HIOB-Motorsport) bought Gerhard Berger's former 635CSI race car (one of the "art-car" works BMWs) after it had stood in a barn for some 10 years. We managed to start it and he even drove to nearby village to pop-in and show it to his pal. The sound was pure eargasm - I wish I had the funds to buy it back then for the bargain price of just 200,000* Austrian Schilling. Sadly as an apprentice and havin just wasted all my money in a lumpy Porsche 914 I had to pass...
*true story*

~14,000€ converted

[mab01uk]

"One of the 3 Rallycross engines made that belonged to Unipart Metro cars in 1982 with the 16v Motospeed head, Trevor Reeves used them in the Dove Group Mini and Tony Bardy in Unipart Metro."
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/235996723606 ... media=COPY