Minetti Sports Cars is an Australian company which designs and constructs

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. It was established in 2003 and located on the

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. Minetti started with the ZZ/I design, utilised for small engine capacity

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. Since then Minetti have followed up with the SS-V1 design. Both cars have utilised

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sourced engines, mostly

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, for

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to run in the Supersports category. The earlier ZZ/I design has won championships at state level in both

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and

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while the later SS-V1 has had class wins in the QLD Sportscar Championship and also took out the 2008 National Supersprint Championship.

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