Check it out, they have a R56 on the new season of Speed TV's Street Tuner Challenge.

http://www.speedtv.com/programs/384/

The team is Fireball Tim Lawrence and Hubie Fuh from Fireballed! Racing.

 

yeah, Fireballed Tim has been posting updates on his blog and posts a link in the vendor announcements every so often. It should be very cool

 

Watched the first episode last night where they introduced all of the teams and the cars, we will see how it turns out, but they are up against some tough competition with the guys from skunk2 and their EVO. Hopefully the little MINI will triumph in the end

 

I got to see it. It's a shame each car only gets about 4 minutes of air time per show.

I can't wait to see what FT has planned for the MINI!

As much faith as I have in FT I have a feeling the Evo is going to win the racing contests. They're shooting for 600-700 HP and it has AWD.
FT kinda alluded to this when he mentioned the MINI will be at a disadvantage in the drag race due to FWD (and probably way less than 700hp).

"Look at this cute little turbo - it'll look nice sitting on the shelf"

 

Did anyone else find the fist five minutes painful to watch? I mean, those two girls were pretty... in an average kind of way... but the dialogue. Ugggghhhh... Couldn't they get anyone else?

From my understanding, the power is going to be measured as a percentage change from stock to modded. The MINI might not be too far out of the game. Both FWD cars will get eaten at the strip... but all other compititions It'll be interesing.

Nice that the EVO gets dealer support WITH a second engine, though.

 

I found all but about 9 minutes total painful to watch.

 

dont forget it's TV... it's not really about what you think it is... allot of "stuff" goes on..