Source: Edmunds Insideline.com "We all know that Mazda and Honda are into this B-Spec racing thing and earlier this week we got word that Kia would be playing along, too with the Rio 5. And now, thanks to Mazda's Facebook page, we know that Fiat and Ford will be joining the action, too. "The gallery posted on the Mazdaspeed Motorsports page, shows a welcome amount of gamesmanship between teams with pro-level touring car drivers playing multiple cars with everyone testing and talking in a very open area. The test day is most likely to set ballast and ECU calibrations for a more level racing series. A dyno on hand would confirm the ECU part of this guess. "The presence of the BFG trailer isn't surprising either, the spec tire for the series is the BFGoodrich g-Force R1 Comp in P205/50R15." Will MINI get involved with this? Possibly the R56 Cooper, or even the R58 Coupe? That would be pretty cool. Swarm of Bs: Mazda, Ford, Fiat and Honda Working Together on B-Spec Series
Looking forward to this series and hoping it gets some air time. I love this para from the Inside Line article: "We totally get it. There's a certain perverse pleasure that comes from hustling a small car through twisty corners and then cruising innocently down the straights in classic "who, me?" fashion. Many such cars are just a set of tires and a couple of easy suspension mods away from embarrassing sleds that cost thousands more."
It would be nice if MINI saw fit to offer their cars for use too. I think a Cooper would be the hot ticket.
Probably too hot. Those other cars come stock with about 100 hp; the Cooper weighs in at 120 hp. That's a lot of penalty ballast.
Over in the motherland I thought there were different versions of MINIs, MINI, Cooper & MCS. I think the Cooper is actually a hotted up one compared to the justamini. Maybe they could do a a different tune to get the power to the level of the other cars.
The MINI One is available in the rest of the world, just not here in the North American market. HP wise it would compare with the rest of the B Spec cars. See MINI UK for specs.
But have you tried calling since you moved? With the new area code, it might take 'em a while to catch on. :biggrin5:
I have recently read that Mini of Charleston is doing the development work for Mini USA and will be distributing competition kits required to change a base car into a weekend racer.
Was just a single line in a an article about the SCCA Runoffs. If there was something to link to I would have. This was jsut a throw-away line deep in an article about something else.