Nick recently took the long-awaited trip down under for his Australian racing debut, taking part in the WA Historic Touring Car Club event at Wanneroo Raceway and then the VSCC WA Collie Coalfields 500 the following weekend.

September 27, 2024

Last year the Goodwood team joined us in the workshop for a very exciting filming project and finally, it's live!

Watch the full video...

January 16, 2024

The Silverstone Festival took place over the weekend. Phil Bullen-Brown "disappeared into the distance" for a dominant class victory in the Masters Historic Racing Trophy for Transatlantic Pre '66 Touring Cars.

Further afield, Iain Mackenzie continued his string...

August 29, 2023

It's been another successful weekend of racing for Swiftune powered cars. With wins at Croft and Silverstone thanks to Barry Sime and Chris Endmunds. Read the race reports from the drivers here...

August 16, 2023

The Brands Hatch Mini Festival was a success both on and off track. Firstly we would like to thank all of our customers who displayed their wonderful and varied cars on our stand. The response to them was fantastic and it was a joy to celebrate the day with you all...

August 07, 2023

Something a bit different here...Ian Medcalf finished first in class at the recent Barbon Hillclimb in his Swiftune powered Fiat 500 Special. There were a total of 61 cars competeting in the event...

July 19, 2023

It was a super busy weekend, alongside FOS we were over in Zandvoort with the Mini 7 Racing Club. There were three rounds of racing over the weekend, with interchangeable weather and plenty of on track battles keeping things interesting...

July 18, 2023

Willow 3 competed in the prestigious Sunday Shoot-out at the Goodwood Festival of Speed last weekend. The mighty Mini was never going to out pace the likes of the McLaren Solus GT or the gnarly Hoonigan Subaru Huckster but Nick still put on a show...

July 18, 2023

The Madgwick No.10 build has now been completed and the car delievred to one very happy customer. The Madgwick was born from the idea of creating a classic Mk1 high performance Mini for the road...

July 12, 2023

The Spa Summer Classic took place over the weekend, Swiftune power was represented in the Supersixties NKHTGT races by Alexander Schlüchter.

Race one was a chaotic affair...

July 10, 2023

Barry Sime and Nick Paddy were flying the Swiftune flag this weekend at the Brands Hatch Super Touring Power event. Competing in the CTCRC Pre ’66 Classic Saloon & Historic Touring Cars races in their Swiftune powered Mini’s...

July 03, 2023

Travelling even further afield, Iain Mackenzie was representing Swiftune in the Asia Classic Car Challenge, Asia’s only classic race series. It is open to race cars pre 1989 and is a multi-category event with each round held at the Sepang F1 Circuit in Malaysia...

June 28, 2023

It was a busy weekend of racing, both on home soil and over the pond. Flying the Swiftune flag in the US was Chris Kearney and Andy Nelson of Fortech/Toybox racing who competing at the PERMCO Grand Prix of Mid-Ohio...

June 27, 2023

Historic’s on the Hill saw success for Swiftune customers in both the HRDC Swiftune Trophy and Jack Sears Trophy. The Swiftune Trophy comprised two races for pre-66 Minis, with both grids and podiums dominated by Swiftune power...

June 26, 2023

The HRDC Swiftune Trophy will take place this weekend at Lydden Hill as part of the wider Historics on the Hill event. Read on to see the full entry list of historic Mini's racing....

June 22, 2023

Absolutely fantastic to see the Locke Classic Racing Swiftune powered Broadspeed GTS and Cooper S out on track together. Even better, they banked a...

June 14, 2023

Over many years, thousands of SW5 cams have been sold for a huge range of engines from: 850cc to 1460cc, twin and single carburettors, standard and 1.5 ratio rockers, SPi and MPi injection, turbo and supercharged.....

June 12, 2023

For rounds 7 & 8 of the Mini 7 Championship we headed to Thruxton in support of the BTCC. In front of huge crowds and the ITV cameras extending that audience even further it was time to put on a show....

June 05, 2023

The Masters Historic Festival at Brands Hatch delivered a brilliant weekend of motorsport. There were mixed emotions for us but that's how it goes. First up, we had the Masters Historic Pre-66 race...

May 30, 2023

We have partnered with MSV Brands Hatch to celebrate 60 years of the iconic Cooper S! We will have our own display area at the renowned Brands Hatch Mini Festival which will include some fan favourites such as...

May 23, 2023

This delightful Swiftune powered, 1963 Cooper S, was owned and raced by chef James Martin. Now at the hands of Chris Edmunds it is back racing once again...

May 22, 2023

Nick has been invited back once again to tackle the infamous Goodwood Hill at Festival of Speed. Back in 2021 he completed the run in an astonishing 56.62 in our Works 1275GT. This year it is the turn of...

May 19, 2023

It was a succesful and historic weekend of racing at Snetterton for rounds 5 & 6 of the Mini 7 Championship, with 8 podiums and 4 fastest laps including two lap records...

May 15, 2023

Calling all Historic Mini racers!

Join us on the grid for the HRDC 'Swiftune Trophy', a double-header race format for Historic Mini's...

May 11, 2023

The Super Sixties (previously NKHTGT) race pitted Lotus Elans, Shelby Mustangs and Jag E-types up against the mighty Mini...

May 10, 2023

Street Artist and all round good guy, Dean Stockton aka D*Face has recently taken delivery of his bespoke 1965 Cooper S, complete with a 1330cc Swiftune powerplant pushing out 115bhp.

In his own words...

May 04, 2023

The Donington Historic Festival took place over the long weekend. It was an action packed event but our eyes were firmly set on two HRDC races - the Dunlop Allstars and Jack Sears Trophy...

May 02, 2023

Watch the full on board from inside the Swiftune 1275GT Longman Replica driven by Nick Swift at the 2023 80th Goodwood Members' Meeting Gordon Spice Trophy, Heat 2...

April 20, 2023

The 80th Members' Meeting had it all but the Gordon Spice Trophy was where our focus was. Four of the five Mini's lined up on grid of Group 1 Touring cars from 1972 to 1980 were Swiftune powered...

April 17, 2023

It was an eventful weekend over in Donington in the Mini 7 Championship both on an off track. A number of the Swiftune cars missed this event due to driver commitments at Goodwood but still the results came in...

April 16, 2023

The 5 Nations BRX Championship got underway at Lydden Hill over the long weekend. Swiftune man, Terry Moore (Austin Mini) had a fantastic battle in the Retro Rallycross final...

April 08, 2023

Fresh from a complete engine rebuild, this beautiful Broadspeed GTS was spotted testing at Goodwood ahead of its return to racing later in the year following a 50 year hiatus...

March 26, 2023

Introducing our new Featherlight Race Starter Motor - exclusive to Swiftune in partnership with Powerlite. Tested and developed in our race winning Mini Miglia and Mini 7 engines – having been designed not only to save weight, at...

March 24, 2023

At the recent Goodwood Media Day, YouTuber 'PetrolPed' ticked another item off the busket list after he was whisked around the iconic circuit in our 1275GT with Nick Swift behind the wheel...

March 21, 2023

The Mini7 Racing Club season got underway at Silverstone over the weekend. With some 50+ Minis lined up on the grid for both races, there was plenty of competition and excitement to be had....

March 20, 2023

This one has been a long time coming. Scalextric have created this awesome 1:32 slace model of the famous Longman GT on which our car is based...

March 13, 2023

Our Longman 1275GT Replica will once again be heading to Goodwood for the prestigious Members' Meeting. Competing in the Gordan Spice Trophy and doing battle against some much bigger machinery...

Jan 28, 2023

Ed from Twin Cam Cars got his hands on a Swiftune powered Mk3 Cooper S. Watch the video above to see what he thought of this unasuming little monster.

Jan 16, 2023

Mark Drapers ever popular Madgwick No.7 is to be featured in the February issue of Mini Magazine. Grab your copy of issue 336 to read the article, get the full tech spec and see some wonderful photographs of this great car...

Jan 06, 2023

As the racing draws to a close we wanted to roundup some of the highs from this season. With Rupert Deeth taking both the National and Winter championships in a closely contested season we retain the Miglia M7RC championship. Of the 19 Miglia races, a Swiftune powered car took the chequered flag an incredible 16 times!...

Nov 08, 2022

All-new Alloy Featherlight Race Backplate. This unit weighs in at an incredible 0.776kg, almost 0.5kg lighter than our Steel Featherlight Backplate. CNC machined from 7075 aircraft spec aluminium and incorporating a heavy-duty, high-quality ground steel clutch face – giving you the topmost engine RPM acceleration advantage. To achieve the...

Oct 31, 2022

Six Swiftune powered Mini's will line up on the grid for the St. Mary's Trophy races, including our Works car, Willow 3 which will be driven by Nick Swift and 3x LeMans 24h champion Brendon Hartley at this years Goodwood Revival...

Sep 15, 2022

We've been sitting on this one for a while but we are honoured to announce that three time Le Mans 24h winner, Brendon Hartley will be piloting Willow 3 with our very own Nick Swift at this years Goodwood Revival...

Aug 22, 2022

Billy Monger to drive Willow 2 in Revival parade Hero racer Billy Monger will make his Goodwood Revival debut this weekend, driving Willow 2 in the Mini and Cooper Car Company parades. Following from Willow 2’s incredible success in the 2019 season, winning the Betty...

Sep 11, 2019

We are excited to announce that we have been working on a very exciting project, building a brand new FIA Mini Cooper S for BMW Group Mini Classic...

April 18, 2019

We are excited to announce that we have been working on a very exciting project, building a brand new FIA Mini Cooper S for BMW Group Mini Classic...

Jan 09, 2019

As the end of the 2018 season has come to a close, it’s been a successful year for Willow 2 the Swiftune works Mini campaigned by Nick Swift across Europe. The car was the most successful Mini winning the most races, without missing a beat. A year for team Swiftune to be proud of! Here’s a full re-cap on the full year...

Nov 13, 2018

Going back to old school roots, our brand new Heritage Die Cast Pistons are the first installment of our heritage range...

Oct 09, 2018

Swiftune celebrates success from a sunny weekend at the wonderful Goodwood Revival...

Sep 14, 2018

Swiftune have been competing at the Goodwood Revival for over 10 years now, so to celebrate their 20th anniversary Nick reminices on his most memorable moments at this iconic event...

Sep 04, 2018

It was a brilliant weekend of racing for our customers this weekend who were out in force at the Brands Hatch Mini Festival and Oulton Park Gold Cup. Nick Padmore, who took time out of racing his historic F1, was back in his Swiftune powered Miglia. He shone in...

Aug 28, 2018

The Mini7 championship is renowned as being the most competitive series in the world of Mini racing, Pristine Condition Racing Team brought their beautifully prepared car to the top of the leader board powered by the Swiftune developed Mini7 engine...

Oct 04, 2017

It was Swiftune customer Jonathan Lewis, who claimed the Masters Historic Racing championship in the Mini class also finishing 4th overall. Lewis claimed the title after victory at Dijon where he finished 2nd overall and the 1st placed Mini. He also had success at the...

Oct 27, 2015

The Masters pre-66 Touring Cars in Dijon featured the Swiftune Mini's of Steve Jones, Andrea Stortoni, Jonathan Lewis and Adrian Barwick, battling for the last final points before the championship winners were announced. It was a close qualifying session with the top...

Oct 07, 2015

It was another exhilarating Goodwood event as BTCC, Le Man, F1, Rally and TV stars descended to the Goodwood Revival last weekend. The three day event featured a wide array of races including the Brooklands Trophy for pre-war Sports cars, the RAC TT Celebration race...

Sep 17, 2015

If you can't make it to the Goodwood Revival this year, you can still catch the whole event as it happens on the GRRC live stream. follow this link to watch all of the races and demonstrations from Friday 11th September all the way through to Sunday 13th. To have your...

Sep 10, 2015

The Masters Historic Racing championship returned to Zandvoort with the Pre-66 Touring Cars, in which featured 6 Mini's altogether all Swiftune powered. Qualifying saw the top 4 Mini's of Jonathan Lewis, Adrian Barwick, Steve Jones and Rene De Vries covered by just...

Sep 03, 2015

This years St Mary's trophy will be as competitive as ever as current and past Motorsport professionals and celebrities will battle against each other in the Saturday race, with the car owners taking their turn on the Sunday, and the result declared on aggregate...

Aug 20, 2015

As we count down the days till the Goodwood Revival, we are excited to announce that partnering Nick Swift in the Swiftune willow green works Mini for the St Mary’s trophy will be former Formula 1 racer Karun Chandhok. Most recently, Chandhok finished 13th in the 24 hours of Le Man and competed in the 2014 Formula E season...

July 31, 2015

Raffle tickets for the Swiftune raffle were sold for £5 each since March online and at the Mini Festival, with over 1,500 tickets sold. During the Sunday grid walk, the Dementia UK fundraising director picked out three names at random for the raffle engine, BTCC tickets and a selection of Swiftune 50 Merchandise. Craig Lemon who is based in...

July 28, 2015

The iconic Silverstone Classic featured a wide variety of grids including the Masters F1 championship, the Super Touring Car Trophy, Historic Sports cars and new to 2015 the JET Battle Of Britain Trophy featuring Pre-66 GT and Touring cars...

July 27, 2015

In celebration of our 50 years, we raffled of a Swiftune Engine for just £5, held an auction dedicated to Mini racers featuring tyres, fuel and test days, and finally we held the Swiftune 50 Allcomers Race which was open to any type of Mini’s. The profits from the Raffle, Auction and Race were donated to Dementia UK...

July 06, 2015

In celebration of our 50 years, Swiftune held the Swiftune 50 Allcomers race which was open to all types of Mini’s from Spaceframe to Classic while also raising money for Dementia UK. Harvey Death was double race winner in his V8 Hayabusa-powered Spaceframe lovingly known as ‘the beast’ Second place in race 1 went to Bill Richards...

July 01, 2015

The Sanwa Trophy Endurance race was joined by some well-known names from the motorsport industry including Martin Donnelly ex-Formula 1 driver who was sharing with Justin Cooper and current BTCC driver Mat Jackson who partnered with Jason Brooks. Ones to watch included Bill Sollis/Nick Paddy, Adrian Barwick who was joined by...

June 30, 2015

The Sanwa Trophy Endurance race was joined by some well-known names from the motorsport industry including Martin Donnelly ex-Formula 1 driver who was sharing with Justin Cooper and current BTCC driver Mat Jackson who partnered with Jason Brooks. Ones to watch included Bill Sollis/Nick Paddy, Adrian Barwick who was joined by...

June 29, 2015

At the beginning of June, Swiftune headed to the Karlskoga circuit in Sweden for the first time to take part in Oldtimer Grand Prix, which is known as the Swedish version of the Goodwood Revival. Spread over the weekend of the 13th/14th June, the event featured a wide variety of grids including Formula Junior, 70’s Saloons and Pre-66...

June 17, 2015

Swiftune returned to the Goodwood Members Meeting with the incredibly popular 1275 GT Longman Mini driven by Nick Swift and 2013 BTCC champion Andrew Jordan. To on-lookers surprise the Mini was up amongst the 3.0 litre Ford Capris, 3.5 litre Rover SD1s and 5.7 litre...

March 25, 2015

We have commissioned a range of grille badges and keyrings both finished in polished gold, incorporating our unique 50 year logo. These badges and key rings are manufactured in hard vitreous enamel for exquisite quality, and are part of a limited edition of 100 pieces. A unique opportunity to own future Mini memorabilia...

March 05, 2015

Yesterday the Longman 1275 GT Replica returned to Goodwood for a second test at the circuit and was joined by the original Jon Mowatt 1275 GT which has just been restored by Glyn Swift. Unfortunately due to BTCC commitments Jason Plato was unable to test, but Andrew Jordan returned for his second test in the Longman 1275 GT...

March 04, 2015

In celebration of our 50 years, we are hosting the Swiftune 50 Allcomers race at this years Brands Hatch Mini Festival. The race is open to ALL MINI’S. (if you eligible for any other race at the event you must enter such race before you are accepted into the Allcomers)...

Feb 19, 2015

Twice BTCC champion Jason Plato will be taking the second driver seat in the newly restored Swiftune powered Jon Mowatt 1275 GT along side Glyn Swift, in the Gerry Marshall trophy. Plato is no stranger to the iconic Goodwood circuit, and this March he will be joining the impressive long list of professional/celebrity drivers...

Feb 11, 2015

Last years 72nd Members Meeting saw the Gerry Marshall Trophy the most popular race with the spectators taking a shine to the 1275 GT Mini as both Nick Swift and Jason Stanley forced their way in front of the Chevrolet Camaros, Triumph Dolomites, Rover SD1s and Ford Capris, showing fantastic driving skills and and plenty of guts!...

Jan 12, 2015