With MINI’s impending return to racing in the*IMSA Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge series (formerly the GRAND-AM KONI Challenge series) with*LAP Motorsports, we thought we’d look back at the first MINI team to race in this series. *Nuzzo Motorsports, headed by Tony Nuzzo, starting racing a MINI Cooper S in the Sport Touring I*(ST I) class […] More...
Those were the Jurassic days of MINI tuning (as evidenced by his title sponsor of the #20 car). Tony was a Porsche Club racer who did a lot for early development of the racing chassis. Pretty nice guy as well. Randy Smalley actually went much further in R53 race development and was competitive at a time when the KONI Challenge was much tougher.