Mini Challenge UK

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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	Dan Zelos
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.