CooperWorld Magazine – Mini Cooper Register

CooperWorld is the monthly magazine of the Mini Cooper Register

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Editorial By the time you read this our club’s 40^th anniversary National Mini Day at Beaulieu will have been and gone, and I hope that it was the special event that we were planning for it to be. We will have a full report on the show in the next edition of CooperWorld. Whilst we are on the subject of events at Beaulieu, one of the events I regularly like to go to at Beaulieu are the two autojumbles they hold there in the spring and autumn. This year due to other commitments I wasn’t able to go to the spring autojumble held in mid-May, however our Rover Cooper Registrar, John Parnell, did go along and has kindly sent me an article about the event. In his article John gives us an insight into some of the changes that have been made to the event which aim to open it out to be more than just an autojumble. John’s article also touches on these changes, and what the event was like this year as a result. I am really pleased to say that we have no less than 14 register reports in this month’s issue, which, for me, are what makes CooperWorld somewhat different from other car magazines as we cover all Mini/MINI models in some depth and detail. We are also so lucky to have some of the most knowledgeable experts on the cars imparting their knowledge about them. As we all know, Minis have been used in motorsport right from day one when the Mini first came into the world in 1959. Its superior handling and agility were identified very early on in its life, and thus its potential to be competitive against much more powerful cars. Here we are over six decades later and the Mini/MINI is still being used in motorsport. Indeed, we as a club are one of the few Mini clubs that actively support Minis in motorsport and this is borne out by the competitive rally which Niall Cook organises each year known as the Northumberland and Borders Rally. Niall has been putting on this rally for many years and it continues to attract new competitors as we know from his reports on the rallies over the years and this year is no exception. We ran part one of Niall’s report on this year’s rally last month, and now have part two of his report in this issue. Staying with the motorsport theme, as a club, we are also in partnership with Mighty Minis Racing, which is one of the cheapest forms of motorsport you can be involved in. I have to say it is something I would like to get involved with when the time is right for me. But in the meantime, I am content to read about the Mighty Minis Racing teams’ exploits which James Jenkins kindly writes about each month in his regular reports. Paul Sulma Editor CooperWorld

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