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British motorsport race
Mini Challenge UK
Category
One-make racing by Mini
Country
United Kingdom
Inaugural season
2002
Classes
JCW Class Open Class Cooper Pro Class Cooper Am Class
Constructors
Mini
Tyre suppliers
Dunlop
Drivers' champion
Sam Weller
Teams' champion
Excelr8 Motorsport
Official website
Mini Challenge UK
Current season
The Mini Challenge UK is a one-make race series began in 2002 and since 2020 the JCW and JCW Sport championships have run as a support package to the British Touring Car Championship.
The series umbrella includes multiple classes:
JCW Class, based on Gen 3 F56 MINI Hatch, target power 255bhp, circa 1170kg with driver[1]
JCW Sport Class (added 2024), chassis as above but with 225bhp
Cooper Class (added 2021), with less aggressive chassis modifications and 130bhp
Competition is organised into JCW Championship, JCW Sport Championship, and Cooper Trophy championships. For 2024 the first two will support BTCC for 7 weekends of the calendar and the Cooper Trophy will feature at three of those, with the other four weekends at Truck or BARC events.
There are various Cup competitions within this structure such as Rookie Cup and Graduate Cup.
Throughout the championship's history it established itself as one of the main routes into topline Touring Car racing, and drivers went on to do well in the Renault Clio Cup United Kingdom, British Touring Car Championship and British GT Championship. Past and current drivers such as Jeff Smith, Charlie Butler-Henderson, Harry Vaulkhard, Vicki Butler-Henderson, Brett Smith, Paul O'Neill, Nick Foster, Arthur Forster, Stewart Lines, Martin Depper, Chris Smiley and Ant Whorton-Eales.
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