Todays “Know Your MINI” event benefitting the Care For Keith trust, and organized by MINI of Peabody was excellent and well attended! In short order, MINI Peabody got about 60 MINIs attending, raising over $4200, including donations from people who could not make it (thanks RB!), and nicely designed Tshirt sales … They did an excellent job of organizing everything, and all their staff were present to make sure everything went smoothly; the parent comapny (LyonWaugh) helped and of course the sister BMW operation provided the location.
The Boston BMW CCA and Joe Marko of HMS Motorsport did a wonderful job with the setup of the braking / maneouvering course as well as a super mini auto-cross track.
Kudos also to local TV channel 4 who covered the event and did a great job of presenting the MINI support for Keith – see this weblink.
The day included lane change / braking maneouvres and a short slalom and braking/turning section, as well as the popular auto-cross track. In addition good food was provided, and discounts on MINI items. Loads of pictures:
M&I / GBMINI 
I never realized it was a news station videotaping, I thought it was just to document the event for the dealership.
(Just as well, I would have tried to squeal by sideways in the back ground… 🙂
Wow! That news reel was cool as heck.. I’m so glad to see how well Keith is doing. Can’t wait til I start seeing him hanging out and working at MoP again… Josh, I’m just glad they didn’t get me eating about 40 cones at the exit of the auto-cross track that one time… although it would’ve made for entertaining tv.. you squeeling your tires as you went by and me grinding gears as I tried to show off..LOL!
Glad I could help a little, wish I could have been there! Looked like fun.
Nice meeting everyone yesterday. Next time I’ll bring some Classic Minis 🙂
I uploaded local TV coverage of this event to YouTube, since it’s no longer archived at the TV website.