Arden Racing and its driver E. Piro ended the 2011 season of the MINI Challenge with a stunning season’s finale. Piro finished in top positions in every race at the Salzburg Circuit (Austria).

"Everything went perfectly. We were lucky and could achieve great results. A big thank you goes out to my team of Arden Racing", said the vice champion.

Due to many excellent results in 2011 he became runner-up in the gentleman's class. Especially the race at the Nürburgring Nordschleife was a memorable event. Starting from the 8th position Arden Racing pilot E.Piro fought his way forward, and finally made the 3rd place in the overall standings.

Arden Racing is already looking forward to the next season of the MINI Challenge.

Within the 24h-Race at the Nürburgring Nordschleife, the Arden Racing Team experienced an unbelievable race and has finally managed the leap onto the winner podest with the Arden MINI.

Beside the difficulties of the 25km long race track, further challenges were waiting for the drivers of the Mini Challenge. Before the start of the race, the weather in the Eifel presented itself moody as usual. The sky above the Nürburg was dominated by heavy rain clouds and some parts of the track were wet from the pouring rain. Arden Racing decided to take rain tires and was right with this strategy. Starting from the 8th position Arden Racing pilot E.Piro fought his way forward, and finally made the 3rd place in the overall standings.

This was not the only success at this Weekend.  Beside the place on the podium, Arden Racing also scored the victory in the Gentleman Class.

After the successes of recent years the Arden Racing team will be represented again in 2011 at the MINI Challenge. In this year's racing series, the team is once again relying on the experience of E. Piro as a driver.

We look forward to an exciting time and exciting races. This year's racing calendar shows the following dates and race tracks.

Date                          Track                          Race                 

29. April -01. May      Hockenheimring         DTM

13.-15. May                Sachsenring                ADAC Masters Weekend

23.-25. June              Nürburgring                 24h Rennen / Nordschleife

29.-31. July                Oschersleben             WTCC

12.-14. August           Nürburgring                 AvD Oldtimer-Grand-Prix

30. Sep.-02. Oct.       Hockenheimring         ADAC Masters Weekend

14.-15 October          Salzburgring                Finale (Rundstrecken-Trophy)

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The team from Arden Racing took part again in the popular Challenge and won the Gentlemen standing. With E. Piro as a driver, Arden Racing won the first races at Hockenheim and Silverstone and celebrated a magnificent 3-fold triumph.

Further podium spots followed in the Gentlemen standing and dramatic comeback come on the Nürburgring at the Oldtimer Grand Prix. Due to incorrectly labeled tires Arden Racing was forced to start from last place, but still managed to gain the second place.

As the leading team in the overall standing and three points ahead of racing legend Harals Grohs, who is renowned for his 24-hour race, Arden Racing traveled to Salzburg.

In the last race of the season, Piro, despite a poor starting position, quickly caught up to Grohs and even managed to stay front over several laps.

Shortly before the end the grand old champion overtook again. Thus, with only a single point behind, Arden Racing has to settle with the 2nd place.

The main concept of the Mini Challenge 2007 is the equality of opportunity.

In this case everything is up to the driver. Regardless of beeing a pro, a young talent or guestdriver – all pilots will start with technical identical Mini Cooper S. Jochen Arden who already acted as guestdriver of Team Piro Sports while the 24h race at the Nürburgring enters the cocpit again and assured a leading result (Gentleman Liga). While the 30 minutes of racetime in Zandvoort, during the Mini United Festival, Jochen Arden succeeded in reaching the podium. Superior he started from the midfield and fights his way to the leading position. Also he would have reached the first place in the second run but his car droped out in the second last round due to a technical failure. This weekend Jochen Arden tied up to his former victories with BMW and the Dolomite in the 70th, with the Porsche in the 80th as well as his victories with Jaguar in the 90th while the GT European Championship.

In celebration of the Silvretta anniversary, Jochen Arden fulfilled a long cherished wish and drove the favorite Alps rally with his childhood friend as a Co-Pilot in the cockpit. In the pouring rain, the rally car, a Jaguar E-Type Convertible, build year 1961, was loaded and driven 1800 m up to Galtür.

There, 173 classic´s had a rendezvous. On the very first day Arden and Schmid succeeded in maintaining themselves in the field of experienced world-class rally drivers, despite the pouring rain, and came under the first 20 in the days overall standings. On the second day the Kings stage led over 2 huge Alpine passes. The 16 difficult special stages, 13 Time and 10-drive through controls throughout the whole three days brought almost all the teams penalty points.

In the end a satisfiying result in the middle of the field was achieved.

In 2004 Arden took part in the Alfa 147 Cup as a guest driver in the vehicle from Sebastian Stahl, who won the Cup with the previous year, always gained points in the Gentleman league and finished 4th in the overall ranking.

Arden Racing achieved considerable successes in the GT European Championship.

With a Jaguar E-Type from 1993 Arden became Vice GT European champion and missed the ultimate victory with just one single point difference. In the following years front positions were achieved as well, as can be seen below.

Ranking in GT European Championship

1. place in Zandvoort

1. place in Hockenheim

2. place in Spa, Francorchamps

2. place in Donnington Park

2. place on the Salzburgring

2. place in Zandvoort

3. place in Knutstorb

3. place in Zolder

Best race lap during the GT Grand Prix at the Nürburgring

Best practice lap and pole position in Mugello/Italy

Arden is not less than one of the most well-known car manufacturers in the world. With its division Arden Racing the company is also successfull in international motorsports. 

As the entire company is build on the passion of Jochen Arden, the founder and CEO, so is ARden Racing an expression of his zeal.