2020 Mini Challenge UK

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

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.

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]

Round	Circuit	Date	Classes	Races
1	Donington Park National	1–2 August	JCW	3
2	Oulton Park Island	22–23 August	Cooper	2
3	Knockhill Racing Circuit	29–30 August	JCW	3
4	Brands Hatch Indy	12 September	JCW Mini Challenge Trophy, Cooper S	2
5	Thruxton Circuit	19–20 September	Cooper	3
6	Silverstone National	26–27 September	JCW	3
7	Snetterton 300	26 September	JCW Mini Challenge Trophy, Cooper S, Cooper	2
8	Croft Circuit	10–11 October	Cooper	2
9	Snetterton 300	24–25 October	JCW	2
10	Donington Park National	7–8 November	JCW Mini Challenge Trophy, Cooper S, Cooper	2
11	Brands Hatch Indy	14–15 November	JCW	2
Source: [5] [6]

Entry list

Team	No.	Driver	Rounds
JCW Class
JamSport Racing [7]	5	James Griffith	1,3-5
	10	Ant Whorton-Eales [8]	All
	22	Oliver Barker	4
	23	Ethan Hammerton	1-3
	46	Stuart Gibbs	1-2
	88	Tom Rawlings	All
MPH Racing [7]	6	Calum King	1-4
	17	Brad Hutchison	All
Lux Motorsport [7]	4	Liam Lambert	4-5
	8	Hannah Chapman	2-3,5
	13	Ryan Faulconbridge	All
	21	Jack Davidson	All
	24	Joe Tanner	2
	66	Ronan Pearson [9]	All
	85	Steve King	2-4
Autotech Motorsport	9	Billy Hardy	All
Lawrence Davey Racing [7]	12	Neil Trotter	All
	16	Callum Newsham [10]	All
	39	Lewis Brown	All
	91	Robbie Dalgleish [11]	All
Excelr8 Motorsport [7]	20	Kyle Reid [12]	1-2
	27	Nathan Harrison	All
	36	William Newnham [13]	1-4
	45	Dan Zelos [14]	All
	99	Josh Stanton [15]	All
	123	Isaac Smith [16]	All
	315	Jason Lockwood [17]	All
	333	Neb Bursac	3-4
JWB Motorsport [7]	31	Matthew Wilson	All
Elite Motorsport [18] [7]	44	Max Bird [19]	All
	71	Max Coates [20]	All
	77	Lewis Galer [21]	1,3
Privateer	47	James McIntyre	All
Privateer	84	Ryan Dignan	1,4
JCW Mini Challenge Trophy
Lawrence Davey Racing [7]	112	Neil Trotter	1
Cooper S Class
AReeve Motorsport [7]	21	Keir McConomy	1
	24	Rob Austin	1
	33	Stu Lane	1
	47	James Goodall	1
	190	Alan Lee	1
DanKanMiniShop	23	Dan Butcher-Lloyd	1
College of West Anglia	55	Gary Papworth	1
Privateer	231	Steve Webb	1
Privateer	666	Sami Bowler	1
Cooper Class
DanKanMiniShop	2	James Hillery	TBA
	35	Ben Kasperczak	TBA
Lawrence Davey Racing [7]	4	Mike Paul	TBA
	20	Charlie Mann	TBA
	60	Brendan Fitzgerald [22]	TBA
Excelr8 Motorsport [7]	5	Nicky Taylor	TBA
	29	Leonardo Panayiotou [23]	TBA
	94	Josh Porter [24]	TBA
	99	Ben Jenkins	TBA
Graves Motorsport [25]	10	Bradley Gravett	TBA
	16	Alex Nevill [26]	TBA
	27	Alfie Glenie	TBA
Performancetek Racing [7]	14	Dominic Wheatley	TBA
Lee Pearce Racing	23	Lee Pearce	TBA
	711	Clark Wells	TBA
AReeve Motorsport [7]	30	James Parker	TBA
	61	Harry Nunn [27]	TBA
	80	Archie O'Brien [28]	TBA
Mad4Mini Motorsport [7]	38	Morgan Wroot	TBA
	66	Andrew Ringland	TBA
Mannpower Motorsport	46	Paul Manning	TBA
Elite Motorsport [7]	49	Martin Poole	TBA
College of West Anglia	51	Andy Langley	TBA
	53	Neal Clarke	TBA
	54	Adrian Norman	TBA
Misty Racing	77	Alex Jay	TBA
Privateer	82	Lydia Walmsley [29]	TBA

Results

JCW Class

Round		Circuit	Pole position	Fastest lap	Winning driver	Winning team
1	1	Donington Park GP	Ant Whorton-Eales	Lewis Brown	Ant Whorton-Eales	JamSport Racing
	2			Ant Whorton-Eales	Nathan Harrison	Excelr8 Motorsport
	3			Kyle Reid	Max Coates	Elite Motorsport
2	4	Knockhill Racing Circuit	Joe Tanner	Max Bird	Max Bird	Elite Motorsport
	5			Nathan Harrison	Max Bird	Elite Motorsport
	6			Nathan Harrison	Lewis Brown	Lawrence Davey Racing
3	7	Silverstone National	Nathan Harrison	Dan Zelos	Nathan Harrison	Excelr8 Motorsport
	8			Callum Newsham	Ant Whorton-Eales	JamSport Racing
	9			Isaac Smith	Tom Rawlings	JamSport Racing
4	10	Snetterton 300	Nathan Harrison	Nathan Harrison	Nathan Harrison	Excelr8 Motorsport
	11			Nathan Harrison	Isaac Smith	Excelr8 Motorsport
5	12	Brands Hatch Indy	Max Coates	Max Bird	Max Bird	Elite Motorsport
	13			Nathan Harrison	Lewis Brown	Lawrence Davey Racing

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

Drivers' Championship

JCW Class

Pos Driver DON KNO SIL SNE BHI Total Drop Pen. Pts 1 Nathan Harrison 2 1 Ret Ret 11 4 1 3 5 1 14 2 8 465 465 2 Dan Zelos 4 2 6 8 3 3 2 Ret 11 2 5 3 2 457 24 433 3 Ant Whorton-Eales 1 6 3 4 4 Ret 3 1 7 6 Ret 4 7 427 427 4 Max Bird 9 16 7 1 1 Ret 6 4 8 14 8 1 6 418 19 399 5 Lewis Brown 3 3 5 7 8 1 Ret Ret 18 3 10 8 1 384 384 6 Max Coates 6 5 1 6 21 5 10 5 4 7 2 5 4 444 40 30 374 7 Tom Rawlings 10 4 4 3 12 Ret 14 8 1 5 3 11 Ret 360 360 8 Isaac Smith 13 12 Ret 2 5 2 4 2 10 9 1 23 12 394 15 30 349 9 Callum Newsham 11 10 10 13 13 Ret 11 9 2 16 11 6 3 336 21 315 10 Jack Davidson 5 17 8 5 2 6 7 Ret DNS 8 4 9 11 336 30 306 11 Ronan Pearson 16 15 Ret 11 10 8 9 7 3 12 9 16 18 302 18 284 12 Jason Lockwood 7 8 Ret 9 6 13 5 6 6 4 7 14 10 353 22 50 281 13 James MacIntyre 12 9 9 18 15 Ret 16 14 15 27 13 7 5 274 15 259 14 Robbie Dalgleish 17 13 Ret 14 9 7 12 17 12 22 12 12 13 267 15 252 15 Josh Stanton 14 11 17 17 17 14 17 13 Ret 18 Ret 13 20 218 218 16 Brad Hutchison Ret 23 13 19 Ret 10 19 11 9 10 Ret 15 15 211 211 17 Matthew Wilson 19 21 16 21 20 9 24 20 17 17 Ret 17 Ret 193 193 18 James Griffith 24 19 Ret 15 12 16 24 16 19 14 167 167 19 Ryan Faulconbridge 18 18 14 16 22 12 22 19 22 23 19 21 19 222 30 30 162 20 Kyle Reid 8 7 2 12 7 Ret 161 161 21 William Newnham 15 14 11 20 18 Ret 8 10 13 19 Ret 190 30 160 22 Billy Hardy Ret 24 19 22 Ret 16 21 Ret 21 Ret 18 20 17 148 148 23 Hannah Chapman 15 14 Ret 18 15 14 18 16 137 137 24 Steve King 23 19 15 23 21 20 26 Ret 111 111 25 Neil Trotter 22 26 Ret 25 23 Ret Ret DNS DNS 25 17 22 Ret 109 109 26 Ethan Hammerton 21 28 Ret 24 16 18 13 Ret Ret 103 103 27 Stuart Gibbs 23 27 18 Ret 24 17 80 80 28 Liam Lambert 15 Ret 10 9 71 71 29 Ryan Dignan 20 25 15 21 Ret 66 66 30 Joe Tanner 7 Ret 11 60 60 31 Oliver Barker 11 6 56 56 32 Lewis Galer Ret 20 12 Ret 18 19 71 20 51 33 Neb Bursac 20 16 DSQ 20 Ret 51 40 11 34 Calum King Ret 22 Ret Ret DNS Ret Ret Ret DNS 13 15 59 50 9 Pos Driver DON KNO SIL SNE BHI Total Drop Pen. Pts

Colour Result Gold Winner Silver Second place Bronze Third place Green Points classification Blue Non-points classification Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Retired, not classified (Ret) Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ) Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Withdrew (WD) Race cancelled (C) Blank Did not practice (DNP) Did not arrive (DNA) Excluded (EX)

References

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External links

• Official website