MINI has
officially become the first team to bite the European recession bullet by
announcing its withdrawal from the FIA
World Rally Championship (WRC) at the end of the 2012 season. This was MINI’s second year at WRC under the BMW
stable.
“MINI will abandon its works involvement in the
WRC at the end of the 2012 season,” said Dr
Kay Segler, Senior Vice President MINI Business Coordination and Brand
Management. “By the end of the season WRC Team MINI Portugal will have competed
in every rally in 2012. As such, in accordance with FIA regulations, we will
have achieved the WRC homologation for the MINI John Cooper
Works. In doing so, we would have achieved the prerequisites to allow those
interested to continue to run the car in the WRC on a customer rallying basis.”
Segler says MINI will continue working with Prodrive, its WRC partner, to develop
its 1.6-litre turbo engine.
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