The 2019 season for the Mini Challenge JCW championship would likely see records broken and one of their most competitive years to date, as ahead of a move to the TOCA package in support of the BTCC in 2020, a grid of thirty-three were signed up, featuring emerging talent and plenty of experience. The opening round of the season took place at Oulton Park over the Easter Weekend and as the season approached (more…)
Tag Archives: MINI
Closed Road Corbeau Seats Rally Again a Success in Clacton Area
12 months ago the East Anglia region became famous in the Motorsport calendar as the first event in England to benefit from the new “Closed Roads” Legislation and with that, the Corbeau Seats Tendering and Clacton Rally was born. Bringing rallying back to the East Anglia region was a major success and backed by the MSA/Motorsport UK, a crowd of 6,000 was out in force to enjoy the sights and sounds (more…)
Season underway with Winter Rally at Brands
A new Motorsport season was underway on the 19 January and as usual, we began trackside at Brands Hatch for their traditional winter rally. Sponsored by MGJ Engineering and round four of the Motorsport News Circuit Rally Championship, the event always attracts a good crowd and a produces a strong line up, creating epic action around eight stages. With the 2018-2019 calendar starting back in November (more…)
WRX headlines first Speedmachine Festival
For the first ever Speedmachine Festival in the UK, the FIA World Rallycross Championship (WRX) obtained a capacity grid for what would be round four of the 2018 season. The championship is normally made up of fifteen permanent drivers from different teams but the Silverstone round attracted ten additional drivers, looking to create history as the first international RX winner of the new WRX British (more…)
Eriksson has the Speed to win RX2 at Silverstone
The Speedmachine Festival at Silverstone over the late May Bank Holiday weekend was going to be history making for many reasons, as first ever International World Championship RX event at the new circuit, the debut of the brand new American Rallycross Championship (ARX) and lastly an opportunity for the future stars to shine in RX2. Since being launched as the main stepping stone into the World Rallycross (more…)
A Weekend to Unfortunately Forget for LDR
The 25th and 26th April saw the Leicestershire circuit of Donington Park host the opening round of the 2015 MINI Challenge Championship, as New cars and drivers kicked started the season in the same old entertaining way. In terms of major changes to the championship, the winter introduction of the brand new F56 MINI to headline the calendar had seen an influx of new drivers, including a few from the (more…)
Northern MINI Festival Welcomes Scottish Cooper Cup
With the MINI Festival making its debut up North for the first time in its history on Saturday 12th July 2014, this gave an opportunity for a second modern BMW MINI Championship to join the timetable. In making its annual trip south of the border from its regular venue of Knockhill, the drivers and teams of the Scottish Celtic Speed MINI Cooper Cup took part in rounds ten and eleven around the Oulton (more…)
Northern MINI Festival Sees a Twist in The Championship
Saturday 12th July 2014 was the date that Oulton Park was packed full with the most popular British manufacture of all time, the MINI, as the Cheshire circuit hosted its first ever Northern MINI Festival. With MINIs Old and New spread all over the famous venue, the action on track would be majorly competitive, as the BMW Coopers from the MINI Challenge took on rounds ten, eleven and twelve. After lots (more…)