Yesterday BMW won the 24 Hours of the Nurburgring in a dramatic performance. How about MINI? Well there was the MINI Challenge race and then of course the MINI E doing a lap around the ‘Ring. But what about the actual 24 Hours of Nurburgring? There were a handful of MINIs at the race but unfortunately for the R53 above, only one immortalized on youtube the morning after.
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<p>that looked like the Mini’s fault to me. wonder what they were talking about afterwards.</p>
<p>Check your blind spots…</p>
<p>Totally the mini drivers fault. That couldve easily avoided.</p>
<p>The look civil about it until the last seconds, the one drive starts calling him out for it.</p>
<p>I love the 1-Series hatchback!! Why can’t we have it in the US?! It looks so much better and is so much more functional than the coupe. 135i hatch, anyone? OMG, yes!</p>
<p>That’s unfortunate… and i agree it looks pretty clear from the vid that the MINI driver changed his line without looking to see if anyone was to his left, broadsiding the 1. :(</p>
<p>@ that.guy – put me down for loving the 1 hatch. Shame not sold here in Canada (or US). Mexico gets it and I’ve seen a 5-door hatch at the U regularly with MX plates. Maybe we’ll get the gen2 car in hatch form?</p>
<p>Sorry nay sayers, when bad things happen to MINI it is always the fault of the BMW!</p>
<p>Er… To his right. Oh boy that’s probably where it all went wrong! ;)</p>
<p>Uhnglaubich!</p>
<p>You need to watch from an alternate angle to understand what really happened here. It seems MINI drivers are easily distracted…</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7d416MRoVo" rel="nofollow ugc">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7d416MRoVo</a></p>
<p>;)</p>
<p>@chris – watched the clip… Wow now I see what distracted the MINI driver! He couldn’t help having a bit of a closer “look see”… ;)</p>