Mini Mania, Inc. Returns to the SCCA Year End Runoffs
Mini Mania, USA announces that the Mincomp Mini Mania Classic Mini Cooper has again been invited to participate in the SCCA “Race of Champions” annual event. The Classic Mini Cooper will run with the other regional champions during the week long motorsports challenge to be held in Topeka, Kansas. The first qualifying session will start October 9th with the National Championship race to be held October 12th.
National Champions have been crowned by SCCA since the early ‘60’s. Mini Ma
nia is celebrating 17 years with the Mincomp Racing Mini Cooper at this historic event. Beginning in 1990, Mini Mania has been able to use this nationwide event to further demonstrate many of the performance parts demanded by the general public. Bill Gilcrease and his Mincomp Racing Mini Cooper is excited to establish the record of being the longest running car and driver to qualify in the same Mini Cooper for the last 21 years!
The Mini Cooper is powered by a Mincomp Racing race version of the very popular 1380cc engines as supplied by Mini Mania. The race engine uses split 48 DCOE Weber carburetors and drives the front wheels through a special straight cut close ratio transmission. The Mincomp Racing designed and built tubular chassis provides the bases for the custom suspension and very large 6X13” wheels to insure maximum performance on the race track.
Don Racine, the founder of the Mini Mania says “We are honored to have been able to participate with Bill over these many years of racing. The Mincomp Racing organization has shown the dedication and determination that has helped Mini Mania stay in the forefront of product development and testing.”
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About Mini Mania, Inc.
Mini Mania was founded in 1974 and has grown to become a multi million dollar market leader that provides high quality aftermarket parts that include its own ULTRIK(tm) line of high performance parts and very specialized services to a growing customer base of approximately 100,000 consumers around the world.
Mini Mania solidified its market leadership position in 2001 by becoming the first company in the US to import the then all new BMW MINI to use as a product and performance test bed. Shortly thereafter, Mini Mania began to offer a suite of “lifestyle enhancement products” that appeal to recent purchasers of the MINI Cooper(tm) automobile
Mini Mania is headquartered in a 16,000 square foot state of the art facility in the Northern California foothills outside of Sacramento. The company’s dynamic web site is truly a one of a kind information portal for any Mini Cooper enthusiast – containing over 50,000 pages of unique content, augmented with 50,000 part number, technical articles and interactive community forums. Each month 75-100,000 individuals access the web site for research and purchase of Mini Cooper parts and accessories. www.Minimania.com For more information - on the web: www.minimania.com, 800.946.2642, [email protected]
