Well, just going back through old posts here and on the facebook page, and I realized April 18/2025 was the 6 year Anniversary on the Mini96World Challenge! It was Started by LJH (Jim) in 2019, and I thank him every time I'm on the track, along with Traveler_2 and Poor_Boy who continued to run it! Traveler reposted this on facebook a few years ago and I too feel it is just as true today as when it was originally posted by Hahn L James.
"Today marks the 4 year anniversary of the Mini96 World Challenge, and the words wrote below on the 1 year anniversary are just as true now as then.
I started competing in the Mini96 World Challenge in June of 2019 only a few months after it started and it got me through the Covid lockdowns when I couldn't go anywhere to race, taught me even more about these cars that I've been racing for 15 years now, and has definitely made me a better driver on the larger tracks when I get to race with others. In other words, it has been a very positive experience for me. Not suggesting there weren't challenges and frustrations at times, but I was always able to overcome them and have had some really close racing with several guys that have come along during my time here.
Sadly, even though there has been a lot of growth in group membership and lots of guys buying tracks and expressing interest in competing, very few post times each month. So I'm going to leave you with Jim's plea from three years ago that I am repeating now:
"If you have a track and run please post your time no matter how competitive your time is. I ask you to do this for a couple reasons, the more people that post times the more likely others will post. While you may not be sitting on the podium you will get a sense of who you are close to in speed and can gauge your performance and progress off of them. Secondly it is cool looking back, this morning I was looking at my times from a year ago and realize how far I have come.....My first postings from my GLR had a fast lap of 5s and now I am turning 4s laps......So please, if you run post your times."
Hahn L James wrote:
"Today marks the 1 year anniversary of the Mini96 World Challenge. A year ago today The official rules were posted as well as the fist circuit that we ran. All in all I think the M96WC is maturing well, we have had a slow but steady growth with a major uptick once the FB Group page was set up. I hope all of you are enjoying the good natured competition that the M96WC brings. I, for one, have learned a lot about these little cars and while there are times of frustration there is also a feeling of satisfaction when you change something up, or nail a good run, and you improve your time. Thanks for running, without all of you it would not be nearly as fun. I was just looking at some numbers and figured I would post a couple stats I thought were interesting:
So far we have had right around 28 drivers post times in the first year.
In the last year there have been roughly 170 times posted.
Times have been posted in 7 different classes.
Each 75 lap stint is roughly a mile in length.
With all this said lets see what kind of participation numbers we can get in year two. I do want to say that it seems like there are a number of folks who have shown interest but have not posted times. If you have a track and run please post your time no matter how competitive your time is. I ask you to do this for a couple reasons, the more people that post times the more likely others will post. While you may not be sitting on the podium you will get a sense of who you are close to in speed and can gauge your performance and progress off of them. Secondly it is cool looking back, this morning I was looking at my times from a year ago and realize how far I have come.....My first postings from my GLR had a fast lap of 5s and now I am turning 4s laps......So please, if you run post your times."

As for me the Challenge has made a huge improvement in my driving skills as well as my chassis tweaking knowledge! The guys here have taught me tons, and I thank you all!! So POST those times, as it's awesome to see how you have improved with time and practice!

Anyway, yall have fun turning those end of month laps!!! Drew