BMX and X Games legend, Dave Mirra, will be driving the MINI RX this weekend in the Global Rallycross Championship GRC at Charlotte, USA. Mirra is best known for his exploits in BMX and winning more XGames gold medals than any other competitor in the games’ history. However, he has been a regular GRC competitor in a Subaru. He first started rally driving in 2008, winning his first medal in the sport in 2009. He will drive the Prodrive developed MINI RX for the first time this Thursday ahead the weekend’s competition. It is the same MINI RX that Liam Doran has competed in this year and which won on its debut at the Munich X Games in July. Doran will not be competing in the Charlotte event, but should return to the MINI later this year. “I’ve competed against Liam in the MINI a couple of times so I know it has the performance to win. I can’t wait to drive it this week to see how it compares. I know that with its smaller engine it doesn’t have quite the same top end power, but having seen it in action first hand, it seems to more than make up for this both at the start and in the way it handles,” said Mirra. The MINI RX is based on the MINI WRC and runs with a 1.6 turbo engine with around 50% more power that the World Rally Car. Read about Dave Mirra here: davemirra/
Posted on: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 08:30:16 +0000
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