Mini Challenge UK

Mini Challenge UK
CategoryOne-make racing by Mini
CountryUnited Kingdom United Kingdom
Inaugural season2002
ClassesJCW Class
Open Class
Cooper Pro Class
Cooper Am Class
ConstructorsMini
Tyre suppliersDunlop
Drivers' championUnited Kingdom Dan Zelos
Teams' championExcelr8 Motorsport
Official websiteMini 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:

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.

  1. ^ "Classes". MINI CHALLENGE. Retrieved 2024-02-28.