Its for real
Flying MINI at Sandia (phone pic)
MTTS 5 flying
MTTS day 4 – driving, rain and Sandia race track
Today was spent driving, mostly on I-40 which is long, straight but quite scenic … We stopped a couple of times to take pictures (“standing on the corner“!), we found and passed some other MINIs, or had them pass us, and we got some serious rain, which demonstrated the need for a rear wiper!
GPMINI crossing the continental divide in 2006
Eventually we reached Sandia race track and unloaded the GPs – then on to the track!
The end of the day was spent very tediously having a photo shoot set up on the track, with the MTTS tour bus and lots of MINIs – should have been fun but there was “micro-management” parking control, complaints if we took pictures because we were in the way, and a lack of communication leading to chaos … I hope the results were worth it!
MTTS on Sandia racetrack – video
Here is a video of GPMINI on the track at Sandia; George & Jane in GP#0154 followed me and George did the video – sadly the camera didn’t pick up much of the engine sound (which was great):
No doubt people will say “wrong line”, “too slow”, etc … but I’d never seen this track before, had no tutor lap, and don’t want to damage GPMINI!
Many thanks George for the video 🙂
UPDATE:
As a special bonus, here is a second (short) video – this time from outside as MINIs go down the main straight (the second MINI is Todds GP):
M&I / GBMINI 
