An interesting race at the Lexmark Indy 300 in Austrailia.
“The Team Australia Speed Comparison will be a handicapped one lap race which will see the MINI Cooper S with John Cooper Works Tuning Kit take off on the flying lap first, to be closely followed by a Bob Jane T-Marts backed Carrera Cup Porsche, and then the Team Australia Champ Car chasing the two to the finish line,” said Price.
[David V Goliath; MINI Takes On Champ Car & Porsche ] Auto Racing Daily
Sent in by Motoringfile reader Steve772
Wasn’t there a similar race on YouTube that pitted an F1, a Ferrari and some other “lesser” car? This sounds awefully familiar…
I wanna watch!!! I hope someone posts film clips.
Fifth Gear pitted a BMW F1 car driven by Tiff against a M5 driven by VBH.
And I’ve seen a video <a href="http://motoringfile.com/2005/09/23/mini_cooper_s_vs_porsche_911/" rel="nofollow">somewhere</a> of a MINI beating a Porsche on the track…
Someone PLEASE record this and post it on You Tube or Google Video or something!!!
Me want to see!
Avitor, anyone, all the links to the video are gone. Help anyone?
Jeremy Clarkson did something simmilar, not sure if it was for TopGear or one of his videos, with himself in a Ford Probe (regular ouf-of-the-showroom street spec), Colin McRae in a WRC Ford Focus and Johnny Herbert in a Stewart Ford F1 all doing a lap of Silverstone. It’s really great to see the amazing difference in speed.
The really big news here is that MINI just came off a victory at the Dutton Rally Victoria!!!