The Last Works Minis
Veloce (Verlag)
978-1-84584-087-7 (ISBN)
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The Mini, the car of the 20th Century and still in motorsport in 1997, 35 years after its 1st event. This is it _x0019_s story. In the 60 _x0019_s the BMC works teams using Mini _x0019_s were virtually unstoppable in their quest for recognition in the big world of rallying, they succeeded where others had failed and the BMC works teams were at the time probably the envy of the motorsport world. They introduced to the enthusiast the _x0018_Special Tuning _x0019_ or _x0018_ST _x0019_ as it was later known, a range of tuning products that the public could buy and fit to their own cars thus using the very same parts that the works team were using. Sadly the competition department was wound down and the ST finally went the same way in 1980. Imagine the excitement that hit the media when in the Autumn of 1993 Rover officially announced that they would fund the build of several cars to once again campaign the world famous Rallye Monte Carlo. Although they were not _x0018_works _x0019_ cars, the large contribution of materials and money to the project it was regarded as tantamount to funding a works team, especially when Paddy Hopkirk was named as one of the drivers. It was this that started 4 years of _x0018_Works _x0019_ backed mini _x0019_s to varying degrees, culminating in 1996 to a full works backed team of 2 cars and a full campaign of rallies and races for the three years. Typically the Mini of the 90 _x0019_s, similarly to the Mini of the 60 _x0019_s, carried with it a fair degree of controversy. Over the next four years there was plenty of it, with money being diverted by the sponsor from one team to another, one car even being stolen and top rallying stars carrying out secret test sessions, being just a few examples. All of this using cars that were designed way back in the 50 _x0019_s and even still using the same basic design of engine and gearbox against competitors who were using cars designed over thirty years later with modern engines and transmissions. This book highlights how the use of fuel injection, distributor-less ignition, six speed gearboxes and modern tyres all helped to bring the mighty mini once again to the foreground of modern rallying and racing. In 1996 the _x0018_ST _x0019_ range of competition parts was re-introduced, with the parts coming from the latest 1996 build of _x0018_works _x0019_ cars but once again in mid 1997 the project was pulled amid secrecy, sackings and bitter recriminations that even to this day have prevented the authors from being able to speak to those that were involved behind the scenes at the end of the line for the _x0018_Last Works Minis _x0019_. With many unseen photo _x0019_s of the cars development, copies of Rovers internal documents, copy pages from the road books of top rallies, all of this in colour this book truly brings this previously untold story to life.
Happily married to Nicki for twenty years, who he met when he was seventeen, Tim has been in the motor trade all his working life. Starting as an apprentice technician with a Fiat & Lancia main dealer. Once qualified he spent a short while in a tuning garage, fitting turbo chargers to anything that had an engine. From here Tim moved to a BMW dealer working as a service advisor and progressing to senior service advisor. Eventually needing a change he left BMW and started to do _x0018_smart _x0019_ interior trim repairs to cars at main dealers, which is where he met Bryan, who he then started working part time for. Bryan and Tim started to do a few rallies together, firstly in his MG A and then in his Mini Cooper, This is when we purchased the last two works Mini _x0019_s and the rest, as they say, is history._x000B__x000B_1.5) Bryan bought his first Mini in 1965, which at the time was only two years old. The car was progressively modified, including designing and making adjustable suspension components, machining grooved and drilled brake discs, building my own engines and gearboxes. Bryan only entered local clubman rallies as the car was also used as daily transport. His interest in Minis developed into a part time tuning business, in conjunction with his brother. We then built a formula Mini Seven race-car that Bryan eventually wrote off whilst racing at Cadwell Park. The following ten years were spent racing national and international 100cc Karts. a family oriented break ensued. Once his daughter had grown up Bryan then became interested in rallying once again and has since participated in many competitive _x0018_classic rallies _x0019_, having been in the hot seat in an Austin Seven Ulster to Monte Carlo and also across the Sahara Desert. He then rebuilt a MKII Cooper _x0019_S _x0019_ which he also rallied. Bryan then met Tim and they started working together, it was a short while later that Bryan and Tim formed a sporting partnership. They rallied Bryans MG A Coupe and 1964 MkI Cooper _x0018_S _x0019_. In 2005 Bryan purchased what was the last works Mini to ever finish the Monte Carlo Rally and just a month later Tim purchased the sister car which was the last works group A Mini ever built.
Acknowledgements 6 Foreword by Basil Wales 6 Introduction 10 1 A legend begins 15 2 British Motor Heritage 23 3 The Rover Group 32 4 Rallye Monte Carlo 1994 35 5 Network Q RAC Rally 1994 75 6 Rallye Monte Carlo 1995 91 7 The racing scene at the Nurburgring 98 8 Network Q RAC rally 1995 106 9 Rallye Monte Carlo 1996 112 10 Bmh development programme 1996 130 11 Further development & testing 154 12 Rallye Monte carlo 1997 167 13 Further exploits with P245 WFH 208 14 Further activities with D555 GRX 232 15 Models 246 16 The end of an era 257 17 The last word by David Paveley 259 18 Appendices 262 Appendix 1 - British Motor Heritage Forward Planning 1996 - 2002 262 Appendix 2 - Mini development parts and sales analysis for 1997 263 Appendix 3 - Mini special editions 1989 to 2000 263 Appendix 4 - Brigden Coulter Motorsport parts list 278 Appendix 5 - The competition 279 Appendix 6 - Semi-permanent fixings 279 Appendix 7 - Discs and calipers 279 Appendix 8 - 1996 Nurburgring 24 Hour Race submitted costing 280 Appendix 9 - Nurburgring rolling road reports 281 Appendix 10 - Car N679 TOK 282 Appendix 11 - Homologation specifications: a brief resume 284 Appendix 12 - Homologated gears and brakes details 286 Appendix 13 - Homologated cylinder heads and exhaust details 287 Appendix 14 - ATL fuel cells 288 Appendix 15 - Michelin rally tyres 289 Appendix 16 - The House of Grimaldi 291 Appendix 17 - Footnote 293 Appendix 18 - 'Works' Minis and Registrations used 1994-2005 294 Index299
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 4.10.2007 |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 170 x 238 mm |
| Gewicht | 1161 g |
| Themenwelt | Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Auto / Motorrad |
| ISBN-10 | 1-84584-087-9 / 1845840879 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-84584-087-7 / 9781845840877 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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