Mini Spares Centre’s 50th birthday celebration party was brought forward to 23rd August to cover the disastrous cancellation of the August 2025 planned International Mini Meet at Laughton show ground in East Sussex. Mini Spares recognising the fact that many customers from the all over the world who had made travel and accommodation arrangements and […]
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Hi there, James here with another update from the Mighty Minis racing grid. The Brands Hatch Mini Festival is always a great event to be part of, and this year Mighty Minis Racing was back! A grid of 14 cars would be showing their skills to mini fans from all over the world. The championships […]
August 1959 the mini was shown to the world by Tony Ball dressed as a magician producing a Mini out of a giant top hat to the tune of “that old black magic” and with the mist from the dry ice clearing he waved his magic wand with something new coming out of the mini […]
James here again, back for another race report on the Mighty Minis championship. Hopefully you are enjoying it! Let’s take you through the weekend at the Uk’s fastest racing, Thruxton. This circuit saw the Mighty Minis take to the track for the Thruxton Retro weekend meeting on the 21st to 22nd of June. We would […]
Well, the weather couldn’t have been more different for the second round of the Mighty Minis racing season. After a cold and wet Donnington, Silverstone National was warm and sunny. 18 cars would be competing on the iconic Silverstone circuit. Qualifying commenced at 10.30 and it was immediately obvious that Greg Jenkins, attending his first […]
Introducing the Mini Spares 50th Anniversary Trophy for Pre-66 FIA Mini’s Last year’s Brands Hatch Mini Festival featured a thrilling weekend of wheel-to-wheel racing, with the return of a Swiftune-organised Pre-66 race. Due to the incredible demand, we are very excited to add an additional historic race to the Mini Festival roster. The Mini Spares […]
I left the last article explaining the new changes for the 2025 season. Well Dad, Chris and I have been very busy over the past few weeks! We have bodywork to paint and engines and gearboxes to build. We have decided to tackle the gearboxes first. We would be fitting the Minispares clubman straight cut […]
Background I have raced minis since 1984 at the tender age of 14 when I started in Autograss with a Class1 mini. From that I moved on to the modified classes with 970, 1071 and 1400 minis eventually making the big step to circuit racing with the Mini7 club. Having done a stint with a […]
Winter Prep Hi, its James here with the latest update from the Mighty Minis race series. Hopefully you enjoyed the introduction and now I would like to share with you what the drivers are getting up to during the winter preparation season. Most drivers are currently upgrading their cars to the new 2025 regulations. Dad […]
A few years back when writing the article on A series cylinder head types I added the 8 port cast iron head as designed by Eddie Maher and Harry Weslake. Eddie Maher was well known at Morris Engines and in the tuning world as he was instrumental in the Sebring and Le Mans Sprites using […]