500WHP Super Cooper S VS the Drag Strip with coach Tom Bayers

We took the 1974 Super Cooper S to Irwindale Speedway for the Thursday night test and tune drag races. Tips from coach Tom Bayers after we got the Super Cooper Back from Dyno tuning at Church. I can tell you that managing 500 Whp in a tiny 1500 lb Mini is not for the faint of heart! I have a bit of track training but not enough proper practice at the Drag strip. Getting the Super Cooper S to lay down its new found power takes finesse and quite a bit of practice. Over the course of several months I took the Super Cooper S to get ready for the race of a lifetime in a head to head show called the Fastest Car season 2 which airs 9/20/19 on Netflix. It was hard to practice knowing we had competition for watching us, so I had to do some sand bagging as we improved. Here is a Link:

NETFLIX: Fastest Car season 2 Episode 4
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[drftyz]

I love this mini especially when it raced against the McLaren it made me want to get a one my self

[neilurwin]

A Phenomenal Video All The Best To The Team.

[brostugen]

That sweet sounding engine, love the Acura V6

[PeterSmith-lsut]

Just the final tweaks soughted it... great last run !

[alexconnors]

The rush of blood is like nothing else!

[EugVR]

I built a 1320cc mini as my 1st car and that was pretty fast in 1989, cam, head, twin 1 1/2 SU's etc etc and made 92hp, which was enough to match an XR3i in the day but that mini is the Millennium Falcon of cars...10sec at 140mph👀💪🏽

[preteristlab-endtimes]

The most telling fact of a drag race is the ET. So how did you forget the ET? ?

[thebat]

Chris Pine dont get nervous. He's been to space, he's bedded wonder woman, he's helped the scots become etc. Plus he builds fantastic mini's

[stevesloan]

More drag videos of this car please.

Question:

What times did you do?

[pauldashwood]

Why is it so bloody dark when you run ..can’t really see how it goes

[JuanLopez-vifp]

hello amio and how much is a mini to restore and the engine I want like that mini how much would it cost me amio ok a lot of thanks

[loetie]

hey bro i love the serie on netflix were you does a dragrace to a super car and you become 2de

[karltraunmuller]

Haha, the Mini so perfectly *doesn’t* fit in there, so cool.

[maldo]

Matt from smoking tire just talked about this car on his pod cast #smokingtire

[AG-pmtc]

I really hope you will succeed with this venture, so you will be in business until i will be able to buy one, thanks for the video!

[yessure]

So you went to a drag strip and you don't publish the very interesting

[conpsarros]

What is the point of a 1/4 drag video without showing what times you managed, even if they were below your expectations.

[eddsaw]

This can be a good daily driver car but the turning radius is just a little downside. But i still like this car.👍🏼✌🏼

[KadettLino]

that has to be the worst video editing I've seen in a while...
Love the car though

[paracidicapple]

just upload the drag clips with the ET for each one. Maybe don't splice the video footage of it driving 30 times.