2020 Mini Challenge UK

The 2020 Quaife Mini Challenge season was the nineteenth season of the Mini Challenge UK. The season was supposed to start on 28 March at Donington Park and end on 20 October at Donington Park. It included sixteen rounds across the UK, all the JCW Class races and 2 of the Cooper Class races support the British Touring Car Championship.[1] The season featured the start of the JCW Mini Challenge Trophy.

2020 Mini Challenge UK
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2020 ToCA Support series:
2020 BTCC
2020 F4 British Championship
2020 Ginetta Junior Championship
2020 Ginetta GT4 Supercup
2020 Porsche Carrera Cup GB

Due to the COVID–19 pandemic, the schedule was drastically reduced to five rounds starting 1/2 August.[2]

Calendar

The original calendar was as follows:

Round Circuit Date Classes Races
1 Donington Park National 28–29 March JCW 3
2 Brands Hatch Indy 11–12 April JCW 3
3 Silverstone National 25–26 April JCW 3
4 Cadwell Park 8 May JCW Mini Challenge Trophy, Cooper S 2
5 Thruxton Circuit 16–17 May Cooper 3
6 Oulton Park Island 13–14 June JCW 2
7 Oulton Park Island 20 June JCW Mini Challenge Trophy, Cooper S, Cooper 2
8 Snetterton 300 4 July JCW Mini Challenge Trophy, Cooper S, Cooper 2
9 Snetterton 300 25–26 July JCW 3
10 Brands Hatch Indy 8–9 August JCW Mini Challenge Trophy, Cooper S, Cooper 3
11 Croft Circuit 15–16 August JCW 2
12 Knockhill Racing Circuit 29–30 August JCW 3
13 Donington Park National 12 September JCW Mini Challenge Trophy, Cooper S, Cooper 2
14 Silverstone International 26–27 September Cooper 3
15 Brands Hatch GP 10–11 October JCW 3
16 Donington Park National 24 October JCW Mini Challenge Trophy, Cooper S, Cooper 2
Source:[3][4]

Due to the COVID–19 pandemic, the new schedule is as follows:[2]

  • August 01/02 – Donington Park
  • August 29/30 – Knockhill
  • September 26/27 – Silverstone
  • October 24/25 – Snetterton
  • November 14/15 – Brands Hatch Indy


Entry list
Team No. Driver Rounds
JCW Class
Privateers 9 Billy Hardy TBA
84 Ryan Dignan TBA
JamSport Racing [5] 10 Ant Whorton-Eales [6] TBA
30 Will Fairclough TBA
88 Tom Rawlings TBA
Lux Motorsport [7] 13 Ryan Faulconbridge TBA
21 Jack Davidson TBA
66 Ronan Pearson [8] TBA
Lawrence Davey Racing [9] 16 Callum Newsham [10] TBA
91 Robbie Dalgleish [11] TBA
JWB Motorsport [12] 31 Matthew Wilson TBA
52 Ruaridh Clark TBA
Excelr8 Motorsport [13] 36 William Newnham [14] TBA
45 Dan Zelos [15] TBA
99 Josh Stanton [16] TBA
TBA Isaac Smith [17] TBA
TBA Kyle Reid [18] TBA
TBA Jason Lockwood [19] TBA
Elite Motorsport [20][21] 44 Max Bird [22] TBA
71 Max Coates [23] TBA
77 Lewis Galer [24] TBA
AReeve Motorsport [25] TBA TBA TBA
Sean Walkinshaw Racing [26][27] TBA TBA TBA
TBA TBA TBA
JCW Mini Challenge Trophy
Cooper S Class
AReeve Motorsport [28] 24 Rob Austin TBA
Excelr8 Motorsport [29] TBA TBA TBA
JamSport Racing [30] TBA TBA TBA
Lawrence Davey Racing [31] TBA TBA TBA
Lux Motorsport [32] TBA TBA TBA
Mad4Mini Motorsport [33] TBA TBA TBA
Performancetek Racing [34] TBA TBA TBA
Cooper Class
Privateers 2 James Hillery TBA
82 Lydia Walmsley [35] TBA
Graves Motorsport [36] 16 Alex Nevill [37] TBA
Excelr8 Motorsport [38] 21 Leonardo Panayiotou [39] TBA
94 Josh Porter [40] TBA
Mad4Mini Motorsport [41] 38 Morgan Wroot TBA
66 Andrew Ringland TBA
Elite Motorsport [42] 49 Martin Poole TBA
AReeve Motorsport [43] 80 Archie O'Brien [44] TBA
TBA Harry Nunn [45] TBA
JamSport Racing [46] TBA TBA TBA
Lawrence Davey Racing [47] TBA Brendan Fitzgerald [48] TBA
Lux Motorsport [49] TBA TBA TBA
Performancetek Racing [50] TBA TBA TBA

Championship standings
Scoring system

Championship points were awarded for the all finishing positions in each Championship Race. Entries were required to complete 75% of the winning car's race distance in order to be classified and earn points. There were bonus points awarded for Pole Position and Fastest Lap.

Championship Race points
Position  1st   2nd   3rd   4th   5th   6th   7th   8th   9th   10th   11th   12th   13th   14th   15th   16th   17th   18th   19th   20th+   PP   FL 
Points 50 44 40 37 34 32 30 28 26 25 24 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 6 6

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