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"Mini
Takes The States", The MTTS held this past June
at Homestead Speedway was an event that had an atmosphere of
part circus and part race weekend, and certainly met it's
objective to provide Mini Cooper owners customer
appreciation weekend of fun. It also turned out to be an
impressive promotional stunt as well. The fun will continue
with automobile manufacturer BMW spending the summer months
visiting three more U.S. cities celebrating the Mini Cooper
cult and raising money for the charity, Motoring Hearts,
which aids in placing volunteers with charities of interest.
The kick off event for the "Mini takes the States" was held
at Miami Homestead Speedway and saw more than 500 Mini
Coopers participate in the weekend of activities. The
Motorsports-Group used the opportunity to promote their
relationship with Ferrea Racing component and specifically
TMG's use of Ferrea's complete line of Mini Cooper and BMW
engine components. TMG owner, Jay Mauney said, "As I handed
out, well actually Mini owners took more than 100 of our
promo brochures from me like they were $100 dollar bills. I
have been around racers for 15 years and they are enthusiast
but these Mini people are the best crazy I've ever seen!"
"Their excitement over the R & D that Ferrea and Cogsworth
Engines invested into the racing Cooper valve train
components that TMG offers was very encouraging." Of course
contracting to build a race motor for one of these crazies
was the best part of the weekend for me." Mauney added, "I
have a feeling I might be looking for a Mini myself after
hanging around this group for two days."
The cult collaboration actually began Friday evening, as
more than 500 Mini Cooper drivers from all over the
Southeast flooded the streets of Miami and then Bicentennial
Park, for a party which featured an outdoor screening of the
film National Treasure 2 as well as the airing of the local
Minis of Miami club promo video.
More Mini owners and enthusiasts met up again on Saturday
morning at Homestead Miami Speedway, where the events true
circus environment exploded into action. Racing legend Rauno
"The Flying Finn" Aaltonen was on site throughout the
weekend, meeting and greeting fans, as well as sharing
motoring stories from his past.
The list of event sponsors mirrored those that would be if
there was a Formula 1 USA with names like Automobile, Car
and Driver, European Car, Grassroots, Motor Trend, and Road
& Track Magazines. Men’s Health and Outside Magazine were
also present sponsoring go kart races and Best Life Magazine
provided Free Massages. Live Music on Rolling Stone Music
Stage was sponsored of course by Rolling Stone / Spin
Magazines.
The autocross courses was intensely competitive, but the
highlight for the weekend was the parade laps around
Homestead race track. The days activities were rounded out
with a special performance by singer-songwriter Michelle
Branch.
As the weekend wrapped up on Sunday evening, participating
Mini owners got behind the wheel and embarked on the Flying
Finn Miami to Boston Rally, a choreographed road trip north
to the next city on the "Mini Takes the States 2008 Tour".
Other cities on the summer tour include Chicago (from July
25 to 27) and Los Angeles (from August 1 to 3).
If you want to make sure you never miss and opportunity for
Motoring Fun contact Minis of Miami at
www.Minisofmiami.com
they had more than 110 members take part in the MTTS weekend
of fun. And if you want to have fun with them as fast as
possible contact TMG for an Engine build with
unprecedented engineering backing up their already
unbeatable Mini MC3 engines. |
