Donington Park – Mighty Minis Racing Welcome back to the first article for the 2026 season! The Mighty Minis Racing season kicked off at a dry and sunny Donnington Park circuit on Easter Monday. It was great to see the cars all looking so well presented. Everyone welcomed new drivers Dean Stockton, car 73 Oscar […]
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Rover Mini SPi and MPi This article is exclusively written by and copyright ©2025 of Ian Beaton and Richard Pengelly jointly, with all rights reserved and cannot be copied or reproduced in any form without their permission but was featured in the Mini Cooper Register monthly magazine Cooperworld. Chapter 1: Introduction This is another joint article […]
The season may be over but there is still lots happening ready for the 2026 season. In November we held our first social event in Lutterworth, 30 of us gathered to talk about minis, racing and the 2026 season, thanks to Laura for picking the venue, everyone seemed to have a fantastic time. I thought […]
Welcome back Minispares readers to the Winter update from Mighty Minis Racing, lots has been happening since the end of the season. As I’m sure you would have read in previous articles the Jenkins Family are now taking over Mighty Minis. Rodger Tello the previous owner is selling the championship to myself (James) and my […]
During and after covid a lot of standard small and large bore heads plus rare large bore heads emerged as owners seemed to dig out forgotten or stored cylinder heads, but since 2022- there seems to be a levelling of prices requested by sellers except some who claim misleading facts and ask for high prices […]
This book has 495 pages with 486 pages of text including many great quality photos, illustrations and useful charts. This is not a rehash of the usual stories about Mini, Cooper, Cooper S, or 1275 GT stories seen before, or a retelling of Longbridge articles. Instead, Mini Regards explores the unique production story of South African Minis […]
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 […]
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 […]