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Our fellow MINIacs were out in force for the start of the BMW National Capital Chapter (NCC) 2025 Autocross season, with 6 competitors registered for the season and always a few additional competitors at each event. This year’s season will consist of 5 points events hosted at Summit Point Motorsports Park in West Virginia. BMW NCC kindly offer a MINI classification allowing the MINI to compete against each other. If you would like more information on taking part in these events or what is autocross check out www.nccautocross.com or comment below. Event 1 was held May 17th, and was a quick flowing course combining large radius turns, a slalom, and several hard braking elements. Our MINIacs mastered the layout quickly and their times started dropping. With 7 MINIs competing you had to keep an eye on the leaderboard with positions swapping with each round of runs. Event 1 ended as follows with the entire class separated by less than 10 seconds : 1st Place – Corey Brown (2012 MINI JCW Coupe) 2nd Place – David Widdifield (2012 MINI Cooper S) 3rd Place – David Tracz (2005 MINI Cooper S) 4th Place – John Preston (2021 MINI Cooper GP3) 5th Place – James Wade (2013 MINI Cooper JCW) 6th Place – Don McClure (2020 MINI Cooper JCW) 7th Place – Brandy Brown (2021 MINI Cooper GP3) Congrats to everyone on a great start to the season, Event 2 will be held on June 21st and we currently have 8 MINIs registered to compete. We will keep you all updated on the season and hope to have more of you join us. 2025 Season Schedule 3/22 – Novice School 4/12 – Test and Tune #1 5/17 – Points Event #1 6/21 – Points Event #2 8/2 – Test and Tune #2 9/6 – Points Event #3 10/4 – Points Event #4 11/2 – Points Event #5 Join an event

The computer uses resistance of the circuit to measure if the light has failed. LEDs have a lower resistance causing the light. you can find adapters on places like amazon but it is a crap shoot if they will work. Also the sell light with the proper resistance through mini focused suppliers like DetroitTuned.com and waymotorworks.com

I signed up for a 4:30 slot

Event Title: EXTERNAL EVENT: True Brit MINI event Event Date: 06/20/2025 01:00 PM to 06/20/2025 07:00 PM Event Address: 21710 Auto World Cir, Sterling, VA, 20171 RSVP on the event here:

The two shops used often in the area are GT Peace in Chantilly and PTuning in Manassas Online shops are Detroittuned.com, outmotoring.com, and waymotorworks.com these are businesses run by MINI people that know what they are talking about and stand by what they sell. Minimania.com has been going through some financial issues and I have hear some issue with order fulfillment so use at your own risk.

Welcome!! First question what do you want to do with the car, straight line speed, better handling on back roads. Is it your daily driver? Do you intend on tracking or autocrossing it? Having messed with MINI for a little bit, in my opinion, power is the last area to mod. Happy to offer tips once we have a better understand of your use goals. When it comes to chip/remapping if you have not added any of the accessories to support the increased air flow and offset temp demands it is not the best investment. These turbo engines are basically vacuums and the more air you can move the more power you can make, that being said for longevity purposes I would personally not push over 250hp without changing some internals unless you want those internals to become externals sooner rather than later.

I will take a peak at my calendar and see if I can put something together

Thats awesome, Darryl runs a great shop. I had him correct and ceramic coat our new to us GP3 last year

nice, always a good add, catches the blow by and limits the coking issues the valves have resulting in a waltnut blasting.

Sorry you had a poor experience, when was this. Our recent reengagement with PMoA was due to a complete change of management from the general manager down. I agree the are always better prices on tires through big box stores or wholesalers. I purchase tires through costco as it comes with free mounting and balancing. Going third party in tires allows you the switch from run flats which is a major cost savings, and better performance. Is that tire price difference like for like (i.e. both were high performance all-season tires), I still pay around $1000 a set for tires that are the quality I would run on my MINIs.

Here are the full result to include your times for all your runs How to read times. You will see the time for each of your runs, with the fastest time displayed under the “total” Column. If you run time is followed by +dnf, you were off course and the time is disallowed. If you time is followed by a plus sign and a number (i.e. +1 or +2) that is the number of cones you hit and each cone adds 2 seconds to your time (example: 52.345+2 seems your time for that run is 56.345) 2025 DCMM School Final Results.htm

Ditto, on Eli's responses.

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HPFP is a common fail item on Gen2, very good chance that is the issue.

added a little aero to the coupe today, with the addition of the full rear diffuser set up tying into the under panels. Adding trackcross to the schedule this year made the coupe definitely show it would benefit from some rear down force.

Good news that is cylinder 1 and 4, so not adjacent cylinder that could be a cracked cylinder wall or head gasket. Could be a few things with that: could be it you just replaced the o2 sensor it could have been ready incorrect for a while and created a rich condition resulting in fowled plugs. A common issue on gen2's is coking on the backside of the valves, of time this buildup will effect the seating of the valves resulting in misfires. Luckily that is easily corrected with a walnut blasting of the valves. usually around $350 or so. Keep us in the loop on what they say

Fontana says they don't, but they are not actively looking and several people do. There are rooms available in the lodge if you call Fontana village and say you are with MOTD. Fontana also has a camp ground at the base of the Damn, just outside the village. You can also post on the MOTD facebook page that you are looking for a room/couch there a typically people with multi-bedroom cabins looking to rent rooms. Here is a link to all the lodging options in the area. https://www.minisonthedragon.com/lodging.php

Unfortunately that is the default light that displays for anything feeding the ECU values outside the acceptable range. You really need to pull the codes to get a better understanding of the issue. When abouts are you located?

Which system did you use, I have been looking to do this with my coupe? Thanks

@STXMINI put me down for the June HSB and I will bring back the Tri-State run in October

No not this one, but he will be taking photos ate the autocross school

is the piston retracted flush with the caliper, like the picture below or still sticking out of the capiler

At the track cross event a Summit Point the end of January, Roxy was doing her best impersonation of a snowmobile. There is some asphalt between the snow I promise. I was a fun day!!

I can be bribed to let you in early, lol.