The new MINI WRC will contest the FIA World Rally Championship from 2011 was unveiled in Paris today. There was also an announcement that Kris Meeke (GB) has been confirmed as one of its drivers. The ...

Kurt Ernst December 20, 2011 Comment Now! Races are never won on the opening lap, although they certainly can be lost on lap one. As MINI is finding out, sometimes entire seasons can be lost, too, ...

After weeks of speculations, Spanish driver Dani Sordo has finally been confirmed as the new official member of the MINI WRC Team for the 2011 season. This means that the Prodrive-prepared team will ...

The countdown has started for the return of Mini on the international motorsport stage. This season, the new Mini WRC Team will compete in selected rounds of the FIA World Rally Championship (WRC).

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 carmaker ...

Kurt Ernst October 12, 2012 Comment Now! Citing “a very difficult commercial environment,” BMW Senior Vice President MINI Business Coordination and Brand Management, Dr. Kay Segler, has announced that ...

Mini finally unveiled its new World Rally Championship contender on Thursday at the Paris motor show. The Mini WRC features a 1.6-liter, four-cylinder turbocharged engine and sends power to all four ...

The return of MINI to one of the biggest stages in motorsport is approaching ever closer. On Monday, the MINI WRC Team was officially presented to the public at the Team Launch, which took place at ...

MINI’s preparations for the brand’s imminent return to the World Rally Championship have culminated with the official launch of the team less than a month ahead of its first WRC event, the Rally ...

Alina has been enthusiastic about vehicles her entire life, and even from an early age found herself itching to get behind the wheel. Through high school and college, she could be found reading ...

MINI‘s long awaited WRC entry debuted at the Paris Auto Show Thursday as the MINI Countryman WRC, flanked by rally heroes such as David Richards (founder of Prodrive) and Jean Todt, president of the ...

In a shocking turn of events for MINI, the spunky British automaker, has announced it will cancel its World Rally Championship program at the end of the 2012 season. “MINI will abandon its works ...