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Silverstone, England – May 22-24

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Itty Bitty Bessie the MINI at the gates of Silverstone.

The Registration Queue

Early Friday and the Minis are already lining up.

The Internet Cafe

View inside the Main Mini tent

The amazingly comfy bean bag chairs of Fatboy

Caren trying her hand at the Slugger game

The pin Heidi won for making it to the top!

Replay Jeans display

Heidi receiving instruction on how to flip a 180 at the Driver Training Course

The object - drive backwards, then flip the car around 180 degrees on wet pavement and then drive forward back into line.

This exercise was about stopping on a dime on wet pavement

Inside the MINI Collection bus

Top floor of the MINI collection bus

Top floor of the MINI collection bus

the MINI collection bus

the MINI collection bus

Our MINI USA Pub crawl starts at The Red Lion

Playing skittles

Fancy nails from a fellow MINI USA driver

Inside the Red Lion

A walk along the streets of a quaint English village of Yardley Hastings (if my google research is correct)

After a short walk, we arrive at the Rose & Crown

The marvelous dinner

Our scrumptious dessert

Saturday - back at Silverstone testing out a MINI with one flat run-flat tire.

Heidi carving the curves of cones

The MINI Car Car Products car wash

Trikkes - definately is not going to make me lose any motoring time in the MINI

Tire bowling - surprisingly tricky

Enter - the VIP tent - or where we spent most of our time.

I don't know what some of these dishes were, but most everything was delicious!

Watching the races

Tiramisu and fresh raspberries

Mini Anniversary Cakes!

MINI Challenge stuff

The Recaro Seats tent

Bessie posing yet again

Heidi test drives a MINI Cooper D through the English countryside.

Hitchhikers who have lost their way on the service roads of Silverstone

Wash your hands!

Twisted Wheel playing on the main stage

The Red Bull Minis

The crowd - plentiful, but not suffocating

Video clips from the days events were shown between sets

Paul Weller on the main stage

The main tent lit up at night

The main tent - inside

The birthday wall

Mike Cooper and Itty Bitty Bessie the MINI

Talking about MINI Challenge cars

More Q&A with Mike Cooper

The MINI factory tent

The many stages of MINI body work

Colors - on their sides apparently

Heidi playing the race track spray gun game

Caren learning to apply stripes from an expert

USA owners gathering to drive a MINI on the Silverstone track

Caren & Co. in their temporary convertible (Darn my memory for names!)

Racing down Silverstone at blinding speeds up to 50 mph!

Goodbye Silverstone! We'll miss you! and your VIP tent... Ah... good times!

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