The JCW-inspired MINI Electric Pacesetter is the new safety car for the ABB FIA Formula E racing series and heralds the brand's electrified future while also harkening back to John Cooper Works' rich racing history.
The car was created from a new all-electric MINI Cooper SE which the engineers played with and made a little poisonous visual missile out of it. Everything was somehow subjected to a race track. The car had to lose weight by as much as 130 kilograms, and even so they breathed a bit more sportiness into it. So speed it up from 0 to 100 km/h in 6.7 seconds, which is comparable to some "gasoline" driven models of this brand. The point this time is not the performance - but the appearance, which is in the foreground, which is also appropriate for a Formula E safety car. It was developed in cooperation with the BMW Motorsport department and is a real feast for the eyes and at the same time represents the "hope" that electrically powered MINIs will also be real visual rockets. The current "battery" drive still lacks a lot of watts, to convince us with acceleration and top speed. But he certainly convinces us with appearance.
