Records smashed at British Mini Showdown 2008

Were you there? Did you see the new record set at British Mini Showdwn 2008 for the fastest quarter mile in a Mini. We were and we saw Nathan Dobson smash the time with a sub 10 second run at 9.961 seconds. In the last hour of the day Nathan set this record with his Nitrous full on after previous problems with his nitrous switching. Show report

His amazing Mini was running a 434ci Chevy Block under the bonnet and rear wheel drive as well. In all he had some 7.3 litres of power to hand with this incredible Mini. How did he fit that engine in. Well what looked like the gear box was sitting aside of Nathan as he blasted down the black stuff to register his incredible time. With a track temp at 1pm of 100 degrees the traction must have been just right as the front end lifted for this incredible run. Glue was sprayed onto the track before the morning session to give more traction and it certainly worked. He took the Quickest Mini in the World from Stuart Meads who held it for 7 years. We hear talk of at least one maybe two Minis ready to challenge these two in the future. This class is certainly looking interesting.

Read the full story, see the results and over 170 images from this amazing day at www.britishminiclub.co.uk