The Mini John Cooper Works Rally is an off-road competition car based on the Mini Countryman, which is built and used by the German racing team X-Raid around team manager Sven Quandt. The John Cooper Works Rally was first used in the 2017 Dakar Rally.
Competition history In its first outing, the 2017 Dakar Rally, the X-raid MINI John Cooper Works Rally Team started with the following driver pairings:
Mikko Hirvonen/Michel Perin – red MINI John Cooper Works Rally Yazeed Al-Rajhi/Timo Gottschalk – green MINI John Cooper Works Rally Orlando Terranova/Andreas Schulz – silver MINI John Cooper Works Rally
In 2018, Al-Rajhi and Gottschalk won the Silk Way Rally in the passenger car class with a John Cooper Works Rally. the same pair also won the Rally Kazakhstan in the same year.
See also Mini Mini All4 Racing Mini Countryman Mini John Cooper Works WRC Mini All4 Racing X-raid
References
External links X-raid website