Depends what Mini drivers you're refering to (I've been known to drive them from time to time).
Ft. Myers has always been fast and appagently the guy who hosts the events there can be hard to work with.
Last time I was there (|-|<-----this close to winning lol), I co-drove an HS Mini with my buddy Karter Bollmann. We were in 3rd gear 3-4 times on both days. The opening slalom I was going at least 68-70 before i hit the brakes to go to rev limiter in 2nd then back to 3rd. This is in a 2003 mini with the longer 2nd gear as well.....
Now the fast cars....well they were damn fast needless to say......
I had fun, but it was much faster than it needed to be. Not really a lot of challenging elements.
David