Gloucestershire based Forge Motorsport is no stranger to the race track, but this season it has truly helped to enhance an already exciting championship by becoming a control parts suppliers to the Power Maxed Mini Challenge. The move sees the fabrication experts at Forge creating a wide range of performance enhancing parts for every F56 race car on the impressively large grid.
Having long been involved with ‘new’ Mini tuning, Forge Motorsport has an extensive range of tuning components for the F56 chassis. From this, The Mini Challenge officials have chosen the uprated intercooler, radiator and intake hoses as control items. Not only are these parts able to cope more readily with the temperatures and pressures generated by a competition environment, but in the case of the intercooler, actually help to increase performance by controlling charge temperatures.
Currently, there are some 22 F56 cars on the Mini grid, with many more in build– each one equipped with an identically prepared package of Forge parts. Despite an insistence on the latest production methods, Forge still finishes all of its performance products by hand to ensure that the reliability and efficacy that racers crave is inherent in each one – a fact borne out by the high numbers of finishers in each race! These are reliable racecars!
The Mini Challenge is unique in its pursuit of creating a group of UK-centric sponsors and technical partners which its presents under the appropriate banner of ‘Best of British’. These include great names like Quaife, Corbeau and Nitron, supporting the technical excellence that the UK’s finest engineering and motorsport firms have to offer. Currently a domestic championship, featuring iconic tracks like Brands Hatch, Donington and Oulton Park, the plan is to expand the championship overseas in forthcoming seasons.
Commenting on the association for the 2015 season, Forge managing director Peter Miles said, “It’s a real honour to sit alongside other great names as a technical and control partner for the Mini Challenge. It’s wonderful to see club motorsport presented so professionally – and even better when the organisers look to domestic suppliers to support the development of the cars and the racing. From our point of view it’s the perfect proving ground for our designs and a great way to show that we only build to one quality – and that has to be good enough to win races.”
