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Mini John Cooper Works WRC

The Mini John Cooper Works WRC is a World Rally Car debuted by the Mini WRC Team during the 2011 World Rally Championship season. It is the first rally car to bear the Mini label in top-level rallying since the 1960s.[2] The car was entered in a limited campaign for 2011, with a view to a complete championship from 2012 and was run by Prodrive,[3] who previously had success with the Subaru Impreza WRC.

The WRC is based on the Mini Countryman and features a direct-injection 1.6 L turbocharged inline four-cylinder engine.[4] The WRC's engine was developed by BMW Motorsport for use in a variety of motorsport series, including the FIA World Touring Car Championship.[5]

Accolades

Wins

  • 2011 Rallye Mont-Blanc (Pierre Campana)
  • 2012 Tour de Corse (Dani Sordo and Carlos del Barrio) (with S2000 1.6T)
  • 2012 Qatar International Rally (Abdulaziz Al-Kuwari and Killian Duffy) (with S2000 1.6T)
  • 2012 Lurgan Park Rally (Kris Meeke and Gerry McVeigh)
  • 2013 Spanish Rally Championship (Luis Monzon and José Déniz)
  • 2013, 2014 Czech Rally Championship (Václav Pech and Petr Uhel) (with S2000 1.6T)
  • 2014 Barum Czech Rally Zlín (Václav Pech and Petr Uhel) (with S2000 1.6T)

Runners-up

  • 2011 Rallye de France (Dani Sordo and Carlos del Barrio)
  • 2012 Monte Carlo Rally (Dani Sordo and Carlos del Barrio)
  • 2012 Rally of Lebanon (Abdo Feghali and Marc Haddad) (with S2000 1.6T)
  • 2013 Barum Czech Rally Zlín (Václav Pech and Petr Uhel) (with S2000 1.6T)
  • 2014 Internationale Jänner Rallye (Václav Pech and Petr Uhel) (with S2000 1.6T)
  • 2015 Barum Czech Rally Zlín (Václav Pech and Petr Uhel) (with S2000 1.6T)

Gallery

See also

  • X-raid
  • Mini All4 Racing
  • Andros Trophy, a non-WRC event won by a vehicle based on the Mini Countryman
  • 2013 Pikes Peak International Hillclimb, a non-WRC event entered by a 900 bhp vehicle based on the Mini Countryman.[6]
  • 2013 Global RallyCross Championship, having events won by a Mini Countryman JCW

References

  1. Mini John Cooper Works WRC^
  2. The Oxford-built Mini makes World Rally come back BBC News, BBC, 2010-07-27, retrieved 2010-07-27^
  3. Inside The Mini WRC octanereport.com, 2011-02-04, retrieved 2011-02-04^
  4. Auto Express September 2010^
  5. Mini WRC website^
  6. MINI Countryman getting ready for Pikes Peak [video]^