Matteo Gualandi - MINI
Italian Time Attack Series M
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y involvement started in 2013 with the first Time Attack event in Italy, our MINI Cooper
me why we do not run in the Mini Challenge series, I reply by saying that we could not showcase our
GP was a road car prepared for the track but from year to year it has continued to evolve until 2017 where we hit the track with 500hp, a sequential gearbox and carbon fiber body panels. Time Attack is a good advertisement for my company GP garage as it brings us work from customers who race in the series and also allows us to experiment with new solutions to bring to the market for that clientele.
products by running in a one-make series; therefore we limit ourselves to being only their suppliers. My history in the world of motorsport began in 1989 with the first races in the Italian minicross championship which I ran until 2006 with the European supermotard championship. From 2007 I moved over to cars and ran in rallies and hillclimbs. Since 2009, however, with the opening of GP Garage
This kind of competition allows us to show what we do as tuners as there are no constraints to create new evolutions on the cars. Quite often they ask
I started to go to tracks for track days with my MINI. But it was 2013 before I started to compete properly with the MINI.
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