“I didn’t realize this race takes place over six days…what do the locals do if they want to get out and run to the store?”

Yes the event is 6 days long, on average you do about 8 stages (closed road sections) a day, but the stages are constantly changing. In most places the roads are only closed for a couple of hours, then open again. You only do a couple of stages twice, and when you repeat a stage it’s usually in the opposite direction.

“Seriously, looks like a lot of fun, sure would be a blast to be able to legally cross the yellow line and thread those curves”

It’s the most fun I ever had in a car with a guy!

http://www.mini.ca/en/MoreMINI/TargaNewfoundland/Vehicle_Highlights/default.aspx

Click on “Side” …

… what wheels and tires are those? Does the vehicle have the JCW Brake Kit. Those wheels look like 16″ non-Run Flats, if they fit over the JCW Brake Kit I think I want some!! Exactly the look I’ve been searching for but want them to fit over JCW Brakes.

Thanks ahead of time.

Seize the moment!

http://www.mini.ca/en/MoreMINI/TargaNewfoundland_2004/Video/default.aspx

I didn’t realize this race takes place over six days…what do the locals do if they want to get out and run to the store?

Seriously, looks like a lot of fun, sure would be a blast to be able to legally cross the yellow line and thread those curves.

Supply and fit only at JCW. Price shown includes fitting charge. Please call 01903 784784 for further details £1,155.00 ex.VAT £1,357.13 inc.VAT

====================================== Brake Duct / Throat Kit (Cooper S) JCM579 Air ducting for Cooper S Front Brakes.

Supply and fit only at JCW. Price shown includes fitting charge. Please call 01903 784784 for further details £410.00 ex.VAT £481.75 inc.VAT

Fitment at the Garage only. :( These parts were developed for the Cooper Challenge that is held in Europe.

AWD =MORE WEIGHT.

Fuggedaboutit! Clearly it isn’t needed.

This proves we have a winning package! (Like we didn’t know already.)

I am just as excited about this as anyone. There are just a few things that I wanted to say in reference to the above comment.

There were no AWDs in direct competition with the MINI. Thats why it went into the unlimited.

Especially since we were running right at the back – i.e. the fast end – of the pack, mixing it up with the huge, Hemi-powered Chryslers, the monster supercharged Mustangs, and a fully race-prepped turbocharged Datsun 510 in the Unlimited class. Unlimited? Yep. We figured that at least one third of the cars running in the production-based stock and modified classes should have been in Unlimited. I mean, if a Subaru Impreza, purpose-built to be a rally car from a bare body shell with a 500 horsepower turbo engine (in fact, last year’s Canadian rally championship-winning car), or a 1972 BMW Bavaria body shell fitted with a race-tuned M3 power train and custom-built suspension are not “unlimited”, then what is?

So we figured – if they want to run in our class, we’ll run in theirs. In truth, our MINI is just about as “stock” as any in the entire field. Go into any MINI dealership, order a Cooper S, check one box on the form – John Cooper Works tuning kit – and you pretty much have our rally car.

There were only four cars in the unlimited class.

In the modern division there were 8 Subies out of 37 entries.

It is true that when they had the camera car (an STI) follow the MINI, with a good head start, it was never able to completely close the gap. But he did make up most of it.

Now, what would it have been like if they were competing and were head to head?

More power and AWD!!!