In only their third outing of the season Dani Sordo and co-driver Carlos del Barrio claimed a maiden podium for the MINI WRC team coming third overall at the Rallye Deutschland. In 3:22.9 minutes Dani and Carlos set the fifth fastest Power Stage time, thus defending third place overall in their MINI John Cooper Works WRC #37. [...]
The MINI WRC team is in good shape with Kris Meeke ranked fifth overall and Dani Sordo running fourth at the Rallye Deutschland. The team has been busy preparing for the rally since Monday and fully intends taking the MINI John Cooper Works WRC to the limit in its third event of the year and the first asphalt [...]
MINI WRC drivers Kris Meeke and the Dani Sordo are getting ready for their next round of WRC competition at the Rallye Deutschland by competing in the Richard Burns Memorial Rally at RAF Marham. Dani and Kris will share the cockpit of the MINI John Cooper Works WRC over the two days of the popular event in [...]
A large contingent from P&SMOC and SCNM headed down to Poole Quay on Friday evening for the final Quay for my Car event of the summer. For once this year the weather behaved itself and the entire quay was soon covered in MINI’s of all ages. This being the height of the tourist season, the [...]
Whilst the Rally Finland event didn’t turn out to be a winning one for the fledgling MINI Motorsport team, there were some positives to draw from the event. The late mechanical failures on both cars couldn’t disguise how well they’d managed to compete over most stages on what is perhaps the toughest rally of them all. Equally [...]
