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
Prodrive
Prodrive is an England, English motorsport and advanced engineering group based in Banbury,
Oxfordshire.
History
Prodrive was founded in 1984 by Ian Parry and David Richards (motorsport executive), David Richards.
Prodrive sold its 51% s ...
,
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
Mini Countryman
The Mini Countryman, also called Mini Crossover in Japan until 2024, is a subcompact crossover SUV, the first vehicle of this type to be launched by BMW under the Mini marque. It was launched in 2010 and received a facelift in 2014. The sec ...
and features a direct-injection 1.6 L turbocharged inline four-cylinder engine. The WRC's engine was developed by
BMW Motorsport for use in a variety of motorsport series, including the FIA World Touring Car Championship.
Accolades
Wins
* 2011
Rallye Mont-Blanc (
Pierre Campana)
* 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 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
File:Mini WRC.JPG, John Cooper Works WRC shown in Paris in 2010
File:Armindo Araujo. Portugal 2011.jpg, 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 ...
's 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
File:Dani Sordo - 2011 Rallye Deutschland.jpg, Dani Sordo heading to third place in the 2011 Rallye Deutschland
Gorban-Larens Rally Estonia 2018.jpg, Valeriy Gorban at the 2018 Rally Estonia
File:Mini Cooper S2000.jpg, Yağız Avcı with 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 ...
in Rally Bulgaria 2014
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.
*
2013 Global RallyCross Championship, having events won by a Mini Countryman JCW
References
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World Rally Cars
John Cooper Works WRC
All-wheel-drive vehicles