A MINI motorsport enthusiast buying a fully modified and prepared MINI Cooper Club Sport enjoys a full package featuring driver training on racing and safety and gains automatic entry into the 'MINI Cooper Challenge' Championship 2004.
The MINI Cooper Club Sport Edition features as standard a fully FIA-approved roll cage, a racing seat with five point racing harness, a fire extinguisher and external and internal electronic and fuel safety cut-off switches. The car also comes with up-rated brakes, lowered and stiffened suspension with up-rated dampers and springs to ensure optimum handling under both road and race conditions.
The MINI Cooper Club Sport is converted by the renowned John Cooper Garages in the UK, which have over 40 years of motorsport experience. Featuring a standard 115 bhp MINI Cooper, 4-cylinder engine with 1.6 litre displacement, the conversion has been designed to be a dual-purpose car satisfying requirements of both daily road use and competitive motorsports.
All of the car's standard safety features, including standard seat and seat belts are retained for everyday road use. On arrival at an event, 15 minutes is all that is needed to change from the standard to the racing seat, immobilise the airbags and rig the five-point safety harness. After competing, the standard sear can be refitted and airbags reactivated for a return to the road with full standard safety features. Each owner will be required to sign an indemnity stating that all safety features will be reinstated prior to returning to the public road.
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Mini Cooper Club Sport arrives in the Middle East
- United Arab Emirates: Saturday, December 13 - 2003 at 11:15
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The MINI Cooper Club Sport, a modified racing version of the MINI Cooper, will be the official car for the 'MINI Cooper Challenge' Championship which will debut at the Kingdom of Bahrain's new Formula 1 racetrack in 2004, BMW Group has announced at the Middle East International Motor Show in Dubai.
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History of the MINI ChallengeBack in the heyday of motor racing, in the 50s and 60s, many privately owned Cooper racing cars competing in Formula One were driven by self-funded independents known as "privateers".
The late John Cooper, racer and owner of Cooper Car company which later became the John Cooper Works brand name and company worked in the mid 50s to develop this concept and take it further into the future.
He created with his team the rear-engine Formula 2 car with a large 2-litre engine. The Cooper Car Company won consecutive F1 Constructors World Championships in 1959 and 1960 with drivers Jack Brabham and Bruce McLaren.
In the 60s and 70s privateers were racing with MINI Coopers designed by John Cooper Works. From there the work continued and in the 1990s John Cooper Works was asked to work on the new MINI project, which would ultimately replace the classic car and carry the Cooper brand into the new Millennium. John Cooper Works decided to commence work on production of an engine conversion and chassis enhancements for the new MINI Cooper.
Michael Cooper conceived the idea of the MINI Challenge in memory of his father John, a one-make challenge series placing the Cooper name firmly back on the motor sport calendar.
For further information, please contact: Rania Rostom, Corporate Communications Manager, BMW Group Middle East,
Tel: + 971 4 3132600; Fax: + 971 4 3300120
or,
Malcolm Ward, MCS/Action,
Tel: +971 4 390 2961; Fax: +971 4 3908161.
Posted by Christine H. Andersen, Assistant News EditorSaturday, December 13 - 2003 at 11:15 UAE local time (GMT+4)
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This article was updated on Thu Nov 30 2006.
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