Short circuit
Sunday, March 14th, 2010 Posted in Audi, MINI Challenge, Motorsports | No Comments »The Clipsal 500 is currently underway in Adelaide. It's one of the country's biggest race meets and as well as the V8 Supercars there is a host of support categories. Series like the MINI Challenge and the Australian GT Championship ...
MINI John Cooper Works Challenge Edition
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010 Posted in MINI, MINI Challenge | No Comments »MINI Australia brings us news that followers of the brand will have already known for a few months now. That is, the exclusive availablilty in Australia of a MINI John Cooper Works Challenge Edition. Essentially the Challenge Edition is a ...
MINI CHALLENGE 2009 - Round 8 TV highlights
Sunday, January 10th, 2010 Posted in MINI Challenge | No Comments »The 2009 MINI Challenge season wrapped up just before Christmas at the Sydney 400. This was a new street circuit for the series, held in Homebush at Sydney Olympic Park.Coming in to the round Paul Stokell held a reasonable safe ...
MINI CHALLENGE 2009 - Round 8, Race 1
Monday, December 7th, 2009 Posted in MINI Challenge | No Comments »The final round of the 2009 MINI Challenge saw the series arrive at a new street circuit in Sydney's Olympic precinct. On paper, the track layout look quite bland, but in reality there's plenty there to keep the drivers on ...
MINI CHALLENGE 2009 - Round 7 TV highlights
Monday, November 30th, 2009 Posted in MINI Challenge | No Comments »The penultimate round of the Australian MINI Challenge was held at Western Australia's Barbagallo Raceway last weekend. Like last year, the event involved a race ending incident for Uber-Star driver Leanne Tander. The accident happened early in Race 3, and ...
Back to the future
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009 Posted in MINI, MINI Challenge, Motorsports | 6 Comments »Here at AUSmotive we like to keep you up to date with the Australian MINI Challenge series. Now, with these videos you can imagine what the category would have been like back in the 1960s. There are two clips for ...
MINI CHALLENGE 2009 - Round 7, Race 3
Sunday, November 22nd, 2009 Posted in MINI Challenge | 6 Comments »The MINI Challenge action from Western Australia's Barbagallo Raceway has just finished. And, like last year, Leanne Tander was in the thick of the action. In the footage above you will see the aftermath of an incident involving Tander and ...
MINI CHALLENGE 2009 - Round 6, Race 3
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009 Posted in MINI Challenge | No Comments »Last weekend the MINI Challenge gang tore around the streets of Surfers Paradise. Race 3 was broadcast live across the nation by Channel 7 and if you missed the action, you need worry no longer, because here it is for ...
MINI CHALLENGE 2009 - Round 5 TV highlights
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009 Posted in MINI Challenge | 4 Comments »Round 5 of the Australian MINI Challenge was held at Phillip Island back in mid-September. Race 1 was covered live, while this highlights package shows snippets from the first two races, before showing Race 3 in full. There's also a ...
MINI CHALLENGE 2009 - Round 5, Race 1
Monday, September 14th, 2009 Posted in MINI Challenge | 7 Comments »The fifth round of the Australian MINI Challenge was held at Phillip Island last weekend. The first race on the program was held on Saturday and was televised live on Channel 7. If you missed it, fear not as here ...
MINI Challenge - try before you buy!
Tuesday, September 8th, 2009 Posted in MINI Challenge | 4 Comments »The organisers of the Australian MINI Challenge have come up with one pretty cool idea. It's a try before you buy scheme that enables prospective racers an opportunity to drive one of the JCW racecars with current team owners present ...
Australian MINI Challenge secure until 2011
Sunday, August 9th, 2009 Posted in MINI Challenge | No Comments »When the MINI Challenge first launched in Australia it was always supposed to be a five-year plan. But, the recent financial woes of the world have already claimed one major Australian series in 2009, with the demise of the Porsche ...
MINI CHALLENGE 2009 - Round 4 TV highlights
Sunday, August 9th, 2009 Posted in MINI Challenge | No Comments »Round 4 of the 2009 MINI Challenge is best known for Chris Alajajian's spectacular crash in Race 1. In the clip above Chris speaks about the incident and thankfully he was not injured. Although, he did describe the accident as ...
Chris Alajajian gets some air at Sandown
Sunday, August 2nd, 2009 Posted in MINI Challenge | 7 Comments »Round 4 of the 2009 Australian MINI Challenge is taking place at Sandown this weekend. Chris Alajajian currently sits in second place on the series table, however his chances of clawing back some points on championship leader Paul Stokell were ...
James Tomkins takes on MINI Challenge
Sunday, August 2nd, 2009 Posted in MINI Challenge | No Comments »Australian Olympic legend and all round nice guy James Tomkins (pictured left) is taking a seat in the MINI Challenge Uber Star Car this weekend at Sandown International Raceway. Tomkins is a self confessed motorsport tragic and he couldn't wait to ...
