John Cooper Works Challenge Test @ Silverstone

The website crash.net is reporting some cool news that British GT Championship driver Paul O’Neill and a few others have begun taking the new MINI John Cooper Works Challenge car out to the track for testing at Silverstone. As someone who has played Forza a few times, I am so jealous!

MINI Challenge

According to the report, O’Neill stated:

“It’s a great car to drive, like a refined touring car,” O’Neill said. “The engine’s very powerful, the power comes in very smoothly and it feels a lot lighter than it looks.

“It’s very good in the middle of the corner and you can get it to hop around, so you can dictate where it goes on the exit ñ it doesn’t have the understeer you normally associate with front wheel drive cars.

“The ABS is fantastic. I don’t normally like ABS but it’s not intrusive and lets you really brake into the corner.”

[ MINI test for RPM ace @ crash.net ]