MINI‘s new Countryman WRC car has just completed its initial “shakedown” by Prodrive, the incredibly successful motorsports company that is building the rally car. More importantly, ...

Mini has taken the wraps of its World Rally Championship (WRC) challenger at the Paris motor show. Based on the new Countryman model the compact SUV has been given a major makeover before it ...

MINI will officially debut the new Countryman WRC rally car at the Paris Auto Show later this week. A selection of spy photos and videos of the car have already surfaced online, but MINI has been ...

In practical terms, not very much. Prodrive will continue development of the Mini John Cooper Works WRC car for both the official entry and for additional privateer teams running customer cars in ...

Just as suddenly as it entered the FIA World Rally Championship (WRC) after a decades-long hiatus in 2011, the BMW Group’s MINI brand is abandoning the sport. On Friday afternoon, the British ...

BMW has confirmed a longstanding rumor with today’s announcement that Mini is heading back to international rallying with the Countryman WRC beginning in 2011. The Countryman WRC is being ...

The decision to enter the Mini into the WRC was only possible because a few years ago BMW for once ignored history and set about producing a Mini for which there was no precedent, a big four-door ...

Seen here in a test video, the new Mini Countryman rally car has very big ... The new Countryman WRC, motivated by a turbocharged, 1.6-litre engine from BMW Motorsport, will be entered in a ...

According to a report by Autosport, MINI failed to file the application paperwork necessary to compete in the 2012 WRC season, by yesterday’s published deadline. It’s believed that this was an ...

Dani Sordo will drive the MINI John Cooper Works WRC on its British debut this weekend at the Cornbury Park Rally Show, fresh from securing a superb sixth place finish at Rally Italy and where the ...

They will be back for Rally Finland. This past weekend saw the much anticipated debut of the MINI WRC Team on the gravel stages of Sardinia. Here's a video showing some behind-the-scene action f ...