Mini to enter World Rally Championship

[Saint in Paradise]

Manufacturer Mini will return to the World Rally Championship next season in a major boost to the sport.

 

Only Citroen and Ford are seriously competing this year and the sport has been trying to encourage other

manufacturers to enter the championship for the past couple of years.

 

Owners BMW have announced that Mini will compete in selected rounds next season before a full campaign

from 2012.

Prodrive, the British-based company that ran the successful Subaru World Rally Team, have been working on

a Mini Countryman WRC car for months and say they want to be competitive from the outset and are

targeting a world title within three years.

 

http://nz.sports.yahoo.com/motorsport/news/article/-/7659070/mini-enter-world-rally-championship

 

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