Part Three
Serious MINIS for Track, Autocross and Touring

By now, we hope you have gotten a few weeks or months experience with your MINI. We also hope you have taken the opportunity to participate in a basic one-day driving school where you got more comfortable with the car's handling and performance, and learned some safe-driving techniques. If not, we hope you've at least used that anti-lock braking system, tried a few quick lane changes, and squealed the tires a little on a back road or empty parking lot.

Perhaps you've also upgraded the basic engine performance and bought those aftermarket wheels and tires that give the car a distinctive appearance and improve its handling. But there is still more to be done and more to experience.

In this third part of the book we'll discuss several ways that you can get a little more excitement out of your motoring experience. We'll offer some ideas for further performance upgrades to suit the driving you're starting to do. Finally, we'll give you some tips on highperformance driving to take advantage of the capabilities of your MINI.