A Nice Morning Drive

It's that time of year again and I am stoked. Yep, yep, it's time once again for my trip down to The Tail Of The Dragon to commune with my fellow Mini Cooper enthusiasts and to thrash the living fuck out of my car. This time last year, mom was in the midst of her battle with cancer, in fact, upon returning from the trip the following day I took her to have surgery. This year she's joining me. Granted, she is NOT going to be able to deal with being tossed around in the car, so instead she will hang around Fontana Village where we are staying while I am out tearing up the streets and tinkering with everyone's cars. I have a couple things planned with the group (it's over 400 freaking people now!) that mom can enjoy, plus this gets her out of the house.

The MINI received a spanking new set of SSR wheels and Goodyear Eagle F1 GS-D3 tires for the event. They havent even been broken in yet (and this is making life so far a bit dicey, the car is still a bit pushy compared to the Pirelli runflats). They will be undoubtedly smoking along with the brakes like before. Boyaaah, nothing like the smell of rubber and brake pads in the morning!

Undoubtedly there will be hundreds of pictures and tons of video shot of the event. I am hoping that the fact there is so many people attending it does not turn into an asshat fest or total gridlock. I have a feeling it wont, though.

Here's hoping I dont break anything, end up in a ditch or off a cliff, or in jail.

Pfft. Jail I can deal with. lol