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This is the Mini Cooper Trackable. This trackable would like to visit motor racing circuits around the world and places where the mighty Mini Cooper won races during the 1960s and 1970s.
It started its journey at Brooklands - the birth place of motor racing in Great Britain.
The Mini is a small economy car produced by the English-based British Motor Corporation and its successors from 1959 until 2000. The original is considered an icon of 1960s British popular culture. This distinctive two-door car was designed by Sir Alec Issigonis.
Issigonis' friend John Cooper, owner of the Cooper Car Company and designer and builder of Formula One cars, saw the potential of the Mini for competition. Issigonis was initially reluctant to see the Mini in the role of a performance car, but after John Cooper appealed to BMC management, the two men collaborated to create the Mini Cooper. The Austin Mini Cooper and Morris Mini Cooper debuted in September 1961.
BMC operated a Competition Department at Abingdon, Oxfordshire, under the control of Stuart Turner, which built specially prepared Minis (mostly based on Cooper and Cooper S versions) to compete in international rallies and other motorsport. This department played a key role in ensuring the Mini's huge success in motorsport throughout the 1960s, in particular, winning the Monte Carlo Rally in 1964, 1965 and 1967, the 1000 Lakes Rally in 1965, 1966 and 1967, and dominating all of the first 9 positions in the 1966 Gallaher 500 at Bathurst.
The car also won the 1961, 1962, 1969, 1978 and 1979 British Saloon Car Championship season, as well as the British Rally Championship in 1962, 1963 and 1970, the European Rally Championship in 1965 and 1966, and won the Finnish Rally Championship in 1965 and 1966. Minis also won the 1965 Lowood 4 Hour endurance race, and the final Finnish Grand Prix in 1963. The Cooper S also had some success in the European Touring Car Championship, winning in 1964 and 1968, the Guia Race of Macau (a 1-2-3 finish in 1965, a 1–2 finish in 1970 and a win in 1972), and the Australian Touring Car Championship, winning its class in 1962, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1967 and 1968. A further title was the 1971 Sun 7 Chesterfield Series. The Mini also achieved class wins at the 1963 Armstrong 500, repeating this feat every year until 1969, and having class wins at the 1964, 1965 and 1971 Sandown 250, and Six Hour Le Mans in 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970 and 1972, as well as the 1971 Phillip Island 500K. The car also won the Welsh Sports and Saloon Car Championship in 1998. Mini Leyland came 4th place in the under-2-litre category in the 1966, 1967 and 1969 Trans -Am
seasons, improving to 3rd in 1970.
The Mini Cooper S won the Monte Carlo Rally in 1964, 1965 and 1967.
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marplerambler took it to Totteridge village
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London, United Kingdom
- 158.47 miles
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marplerambler placed it in Where Exmoor Meets the Sea
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South West England, United Kingdom
- 227.15 miles
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marplerambler took it to Church Micro 7619...Totteridge "Oldest Tree "
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London, United Kingdom
- 226.35 miles
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marplerambler took it to Red Screes (AW EF 14)
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North West England, United Kingdom
- 83.22 miles
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marplerambler took it to Church Micro 12844...Marple Ridge - Methodist
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North West England, United Kingdom
- .3 miles
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marplerambler took it to Hanging Off The Ridge
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North West England, United Kingdom
- .54 miles
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marplerambler took it to CEW #10 Doodfield
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North West England, United Kingdom
- 91.85 miles
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marplerambler took it to Skiddaw (AW NF.1)
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North West England, United Kingdom
- 8.84 miles
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marplerambler took it to Dale Head
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North West England, United Kingdom
- .43 miles
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marplerambler took it to Packhorse paths
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North West England, United Kingdom
- 17.06 miles
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