The Mini John Cooper Works WRC is a

World Rally Car A World Rally Car is a racing automobile built to the specific regulations set by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) and designed for competition in the World Rally Championship (WRC). The cars were introduced in 1997 as a repl ...

debuted by the Mini WRC Team during the

2011 World Rally Championship season The 2011 World Rally Championship was the 39th season of the FIA World Rally Championship. The season consisted of 13 rallies, beginning with Rally Sweden on 10 February and ended with Wales Rally GB on 13 November. Sébastien Loeb claimed h ...

. It is the first rally car to bear the Mini label in top-level rallying since the 1960s. The car was entered in a limited campaign for 2011, with a view to a complete championship from 2012 and was run by

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, who previously had success with the

Subaru Impreza WRC The Subaru Impreza WRC is a World Rally Car based on the Subaru Impreza road car. It was used by Subaru World Rally Team, Subaru's factory team, and replaced the Subaru Legacy RS in 1993. The car was debuted at 1993 Rally Finland and won a to ...

. The WRC is based on the

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and features a direct-injection 1.6 L turbocharged inline four-cylinder engine. The WRC's engine was developed by

BMW Motorsport BMW M Motorsport (formerly BMW Motorsport) is the division of BMW responsible for motorsport-related activities, including works-run competition programmes in touring car racing, sports car racing, motorcycle racing. The current organisation is a ...

for use in a variety of motorsport series, including the FIA World Touring Car Championship.

Accolades

Wins

* 2011

Rallye Mont-Blanc The Rallye Mont-Blanc Morzine is a yearly motor rally held in the month of September in Morzine, Haute-Savoie. It is often held as part of the French Rally Championship. It began in 1947 with the Rally Paris-Evian, and it eventually became the Ra ...

(

Pierre Campana Pierre Campana (born 1 May 1985 in Bastia) is a French rallying, rally driver from Corsica. Career Campana began rallying in 2004, and made his World Rally Championship debut in 2007 on his home event, the Tour de Corse. Driving a Citroën C2 R2, ...

) * 2012

Tour de Corse The Tour de Corse is a rally first held in 1956 on the island of Corsica. It was the French round of the World Rally Championship from the inaugural 1973 season until 2008, was part of the Intercontinental Rally Challenge from 2011 to 2012, and ...

(

Dani Sordo Daniel "Dani" Sordo Castillo (born 2 May 1983) is a Spanish rally driver. He competes in the World Rally Championship for Hyundai Motorsport. He achieved his first WRC victory at the 2013 Rallye Deutschland. Career Sordo began in motocross whe ...

and

Carlos del Barrio Carlos del Barrio (born 15 August 1968) is a Spanish rally co-driver. He is currently teamed with Dani Sordo and is competing for Hyundai in the World Rally Championship. Rally career Carlos del Barrio began his rally career in 1991, co-drivin ...

) (with S2000 1.6T) * 2012

Qatar International Rally The Qatar International Rally (known previously as Qatar Rally, also known as International Rally of Qatar) is an international rallying event held near the Qatari capital Doha. The rally, a gravel and sand event, dates back into the 1970s and has ...

( Abdulaziz Al-Kuwari and Killian Duffy) (with S2000 1.6T) * 2012

Lurgan Park Rally The Lurgan Park Rally was an annual rally event held in Lurgan Park in Lurgan, Northern Ireland from 1980 to 2016. In 2010, the rally was given a new logo and another new logo was released for the 2012 rally. The Rally also held the ''Escort Mk2 ...

(

Kris Meeke Kris Meeke (born 2 July 1979) is a British professional rally driver from Northern Ireland, best known for competing in the FIA World Rally Championship (WRC). He was the 2009 Intercontinental Rally Challenge champion. His co-driver is Seb ...

and Gerry McVeigh) * 2013

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( Luis Monzon and

José Déniz José is a predominantly Spanish and Portuguese form of the given name Joseph. While spelled alike, this name is pronounced very differently in each of the two languages: Spanish ; Portuguese (or ). In French, the name ''José'', pronounced , ...

) * 2013, 2014 Czech Rally Championship (

Václav Pech Václav Pech (born 3 December 1976) is a Czech professional rally driver. He has won multiple Czech Rally Championships and winner of six rallies of European Rally Championship The European Rally Championship (officially FIA European Rally Ch ...

and Petr Uhel) (with S2000 1.6T) * 2014 Barum Czech Rally Zlín (

and Petr Uhel) (with S2000 1.6T)

Runners-up

2011 Rallye de France The 2011 Rallye de France – Alsace was the eleventh round of the 2011 World Rally Championship season. The rally took place over 30 September – 2 October, and was based in Strasbourg, the capital city of the Alsace region of France. The rally ...

(

and

) *

2012 Monte Carlo Rally The 2012 Monte Carlo Rally, officially 80ème Rallye Automobile de Monte-Carlo was the first round of the 2012 World Rally Championship (WRC) season. The rally took place between 18 and 22 January 2012. Report Introduction The rally, which retur ...

(

and

) * 2012 Rally of Lebanon (Abdo Feghali and Marc Haddad) (with S2000 1.6T) * 2013 Barum Czech Rally Zlín (

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 The Barum Czech Rally Zlín (also called Barum Rallye and Barum Rally Zlín), is a tarmac rally held in Zlín, Czech Republic. It is currently part of the European Rally Championship and previously has been part of the Intercontinental Rally Chall ...

(Václav Pech and Petr Uhel) (with S2000 1.6T)

Gallery

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Armindo Araújo Armindo Araújo (born 1 September 1977) is a Portugal, Portuguese Rallying, rally driver. He won the Production World Rally Championship in the 2009 World Rally Championship, 2009 season, repeating the accomplishment in the next year (2010 World R ...

Super 2000 Super 2000 is an Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile, FIA powertrain specification used in the World Rally Championship, the British Touring Car Championship, the World Touring Car Championship, and other touring car racing, touring car ...

model at the

2011 Rally de Portugal The 2011 Rally de Portugal was the third round of the 2011 World Rally Championship season. It was the season's first European event held on gravel roads. The rally took place over 24–27 March, beginning with a super special stage in the city of ...

File:Dani Sordo - 2011 Rallye Deutschland.jpg,

heading to third place in the

2011 Rallye Deutschland The 2011 Rallye Deutschland was the ninth round of the 2011 World Rally Championship season. The rally took place over 19–21 August, and was based in Trier, in the Rhineland-Palatinate state of Germany. The rally was also the sixth round of the ...

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Valeriy Gorban Valeriy Ivanovych Gorban (, born February 6, 1973) is a Ukraine, Ukrainian Rallying, rally driver. From 2002 to 2020, Gorban took part in 193 national and international competitions. 2002-2007: MacCoffee Rally Team Valeriy began his rally ca ...

at the 2018 Rally Estonia File:Mini Cooper S2000.jpg, Yağız Avcı with

in Rally Bulgaria 2014

References

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Accolades

Wins

Runners-up

Gallery

See also

References