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Motor-Tober - HC Live Free & Drive

October 14, 2007 on 11:50 pm | In Recent Posts |

On the heals of yesterdays MAMA V event today we left Concord, NH and headed to the New Hampshire International Speedway to attend the Herb Chambers ‘Live Free & Drive’ event where I spent most of the short ride up looking in my rear view mirror admiring GBMINI. Even after over a year ownership I still can’t get enough of the GP.

When we arrived we were greeted by Kerry and team and while we were registering Dave in GP0191 arrived. While the girls caught up on good times we headed to the first of two autocross area’s. This area we could drive Herb Chambers provided MINI’s co-piloted by Skip Barber staff.

Present was the new R56 with the Stage 1 JCW Kit. After driving it I was not overly impressed with it compared to a regular R56. Even after watching the Skip Barber staff racing the JCW R56 and regular R56 MCS there was no advantage to the JCW equipped car. Maybe when they eventually come out with the Stage II kit in two years it might be something to compare to the GP.

Then we were off to the 2nd area where we could drive our own cars again co-piloted by Skip Barber staff. Ian was out first and then Jayne took out GP1717 with MiniCindy as the co-pilot.

After checking with my technical director and reviewing fuel strategy I took GP1717 out and had a blast. I could feel the DSC kicking in trying to prevent wheel spin as I powered out of corners. After a nice lunch I took GP out for a second run and this time turned DSC off and got to appreciate all the power. On our way home GP1717 hit 7777 miles.