Johnmar in his Tahiti
and Christiaan (AKA CMC) with his Mini 
.(In the back of Johnmar's pict you can see the Minifriends and their self-made 'Hi-Lo' kit)
It was a beautiful Sunday, that 28th of March 1999. A perfect
day to go to the STV.
Although the event itself is for testing your ability to control
your Mini, lots of people just attend to hangout with fellow
Miniacs.
There are usually also a number of Mini-listers around and
this time was no different.
On previous occasions I'd managed to miss one specific lister
every time, and this time was no different. I was told he only
had stopped by briefly to 'show off'. What exactly was not made
clear :)
But there were some of the 'regular crowd', among them of
course
Johnmar in his Tahiti
and Christiaan (AKA CMC) with his Mini .
(In the back of Johnmar's pict you can see the Minifriends and
their self-made 'Hi-Lo' kit)
Another Mini-friend, though not a lister, that usually can be
found at the STV's is Erwin, who these days drives around in a
(not completely original :) Innocenti
Mini 
. I
met Erwin back in 1994 at the IMM on Silverstone, back then he
drove a red Mini with a yellow checkered roof.
Some listers actually do take part in the event. This time
Arnoud had joined the Mini ranks again to give his Mini a spin.
Christiaan was navigator for him at one point but for some reason
did not get in the car after that one drive around the circuit.
Theo is also always very willing and able to show his abilities on the track.
This time around he did not succeed in beating Arnoud, maybe
because the latter got some help at
the start 
.
The autotest is held on a closed section of a parkinglot. And as parkinglots go, they come in hordes. At some point two Mini's started racing eachother on another section.
The yellow Mini clearly won, hands down, even with the black one cheating. It carried a list-sticker, but as it turned out the driver had only borrowed the Mini from his brother.
Although we probably all 'been there and done that', this free racing is somewhat frowned upon by some. Not many people like having Mini's blasting away all afternoon and these free races on (semi)public roads don't help with the overall image.
After all the smoke settled not many Mini's were left. Which
made for this surreal picture of 'EstEIGHT
and Van'.
(free after 'cow and chicken' :)
Prizes were given and good-byes were said... Till the next meeting, be it a STV or otherwise.
