A MINI Cooper S has captured the pole for today’s GRAND-AM Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge race at Homestead-Miami Speedway.
From PaddockTalk:
In the Street Tuner (ST) class, Sarah Cattaneo led an abbreviated session and will lead 33 cars to the green flag for that race.
Cattaneo drove the No. 197 Cruise America/Four Winds RV Mini Cooper [...]
I wrote a few weeks ago about RSR Motorsports and Automatic Racing joining forces to build and race MINIs in the 2010 GRAND-AM Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge (formerly the KONI Challenge). The first race is the Fresh from Florida 200 at Daytona International Speedway on Friday, January 29th.
The combined teams will be fielding two [...]
If you can’t get enough news and previews of the forthcoming MINI Countryman, here’s a collection of some of the recent articles:
Car and Driver: “2011 MINI Countryman – Official Photos and Info”
CAR Magazine: “MINI Countryman (2010): First Official Pictures”
The Independent: “A Break from Tradition as MINI Gets Bigger”
Motor Trend: “First Look: 2012 MINI Countryman”
The Sun: [...]
Auto Express ranked its top 20 hot hatchbacks from the past 30 years. The top 10 are:
Renault Clio Williams
Peugeot 205 GTi
Renaultsport Clio 200 Cup
Peugeot 306 Rallye
VW Golf GTi MkII
VW Golf GTi MkV
Renault 5 GT Turbo
VW Golf GTi MkI
Peugeot 106 Rallye Series 2
Ford Focus RS MkI
The highest ranking MINI on the list was the MINI [...]
photo by Tom Stacy
Randy Smalley’s RSR Motorsports is teaming up with Automatic Racing to run MINIs in the 2010 GRAND-AM Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge (formerly the KONI Challenge). Automatic Racing will continue running BMWs, but will be preparing the MINIs for RSR Motorsports.
One MINI will be driven by Randy Smalley and Owen Trinkler. [...]