MINI Wins Spanish Tarmac Rally Championship

MINI may be out of the WRC as a factory team but in the hands of private teams, MINI continues to perform well. Case in point Luis Monzón who claimed the first...

MINI’s 2012 WRC Season Finale

[Official Release] In rounding off the 2012 WRC season Dani Sordo once again proved the big potential of the MINI WRC. On the final day of the Rallye Spain, Dani won four...

MINI Finishes 6th in Rallye Italia

[Official Release] Sixth place in Sardinia: On the Rallye Italia Chris Atkinson posts the MINI marque’s best gravel result of the current WRC season as Paulo Nobre finishes 19th.

MINI Currently 5th Overall in Rallye Italia

[Official Release] At the halfway point of Rallye Italia everything is running to plan for the WRC Team MINI Portugal. Chris Atkinson ends Friday’s proceedings in fifth place overall; after eight special...

MINI Withdraws Factory WRC Team

MINI announced officially today that they are pulling out of “works involvement” in the FIA World Rally Championship at the end of the 2012 season. What does that mean? It means that...

MINI Places 5th in Rallye Germany

[Official Release] A controlled drive on all 15 special stages making up the 2012 Rally Deutschland saw Chris Atkinson secure fifth place overall upon his MINI WRC debut. Dani Sordo finished ninth.

MINI WRC Tasks Chris Atkinson for Rally Portugal

Team MINI WRC has recruited accomplished World Rally Championship driver Chris Atkinson to pilot the lead car for Rally Portugal. He’ll get his feet wet with Team MINI in the Rallye Deutschland...

MINI WRC Takes 10th in Greece

[Official Release via MINI Motorsport] It became clear three stages from the end of the Rally Greece that a party would be breaking out at Abdulaziz Al-Kuwari’s team after news was confirmed...

MINI Follows Maxi Principle

[Official Release from MINI Motorsport] Extreme weather; extreme challenge – Dani Sordo secures three world championship points for the MINI John Cooper Works WRC on the fourth day of the Rally Portugal....

MINI WRC Finishes 7th in Rally Mexico

Portugal native and MINI WRC race driver Armindo Araujo brought home a top ten finish in the week’s Rally Mexico. Looking forward to his homeland rally at the end of this month,...

MINI Officially Takes Over Factory WRC Team

The day has come that many of us have dreaded – MINI has officially announced that Prodrive is out as the factory supported MINI team for the WRC. MINI is parting ways...

Rumor: BMW Set to Terminate Prodrive Relationship

Autosport is reporting that MINI is set terminate its relationship with Prodrive and take over the WRC team going forward. Here’s an excerpt from Autosport: >The BMW Group is expected to terminate...