The Ultimate Off-Road MINI is Here: the X-raid Countryman
The Dakar rally team X-raid knows MINIs. They’ve won the five times with them over the past eight years and have a history of off-road innovation. Now they’re applying a bit of...
Dakar 2019 Stage 2 – Four MINIs Now in Top Ten
Following on from yesterday’s short Stage 1, with just 84 km of off-road Special Stage, today’s Stage 2 was the first of the long distance races with a combination of 211 km...
Dakar 2019 Stage 1 – Three MINIs in the Top Five
Dakar 2019 is the 41st edition of the unique Dakar Rally and today (7th January) saw the first of ten stages finish with good news for MINI Motorsport and motorsport partner X-raid...
MINI Fan’s Guide to the 2019 Dakar
The Dakar rally, the toughest race in the world is now underway and MINI has another great chance to win it. Taking place from the 6th – 17th of January, the Dakar...
2019 Dakar: In-Depth Look at the Radical JCW Buggy
The jaw-dropping MINI JCW buggy debuted at last year’s Dakar to much fanfare. It was a clean sheet design that took all the know-how from MINI’s previous Dakar appearances in creating a...
Interview: MINI JCW Team Preps for the Epic 2019 Dakar Rally
The start of the 2019 Dakar Rally is days away and the MINI team is prepping for an all-out assault on the world’s toughest race. Led by rally legends Stéphane Peterhansel (FRA),...
MINI Wins the Rallye du Maroc
Official release: Rallye du Maroc – Round ten of the 2018 FIA Cross Country Rally World Cup – proved to be a very memorable race for Jakub ‘Kuba’ Przygonski (POL) and co-driver...
The X-raid MINI JCW Team is Going Back to Dakar
MINI is doubling down and brining in some rally legends to compete on this year’s X-raid MINI JCW Team. Cyril Despres, Stéphane Peterhansel and Carlos Sainz are joining the MINI family to...
MINI Wins Silk Road Rally
It may not be Dakar but MINI has won another epic rally in wining the Silk Way Rally 2018. The MINI Family crew of Yazeed Al Rajhi (KSA) and co-driver Timo Gottschalk...
MINI Wins The Qatar Cross Country Rally
Official release: The MINI Family crew of Jakub ‘Kuba’ Przygonski (POL) and co-driver Tom Colsoul (BEL) today achieved victory at the seventh edition of the Qatar Cross Country Rally – Round 4...
2018 Dakar is Over with Four MINI Teams Finishing
The 2018 Dakar is over without the finish MINI would have liked. With the highest ranked MINI team 5th overall the team is already looking ahead to 2019. But before we get...