# mini enters WRC....... **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Automotive\ **Created:** [December 8, 2010, 8:50am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/mini-enters-wrc/206983 "2010-12-08T08:50:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Skurge](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/skurge/32/7285_2.png) [@Skurge](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Skurge)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2010, 8:50am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/mini-enters-wrc/206983/1 "2010-12-08T08:50:34Z")
i think its a great move by them with the new countryman coming out 🙂 and who can hate on prodrive? [http://www.topgear.com/uk/photos/mini-wrc-2010-12-08?imageNo=1](http://www.topgear.com/uk/photos/mini-wrc-2010-12-08?imageNo=1) ![http://www.topgear.com/uk/assets/cms/e89fd737-5ffa-41e6-a4c1-618450de50fc/670x377Image.jpg?p=101208_11:52](http://www.topgear.com/uk/assets/cms/e89fd737-5ffa-41e6-a4c1-618450de50fc/670x377Image.jpg?p=101208_11:52) > Especially as I’ve just been strapped in for an exclusive ride in the sole prototype. It was a proper tyre-smoking perma-slidey ride too, turbo engine bouncing towards its redline, sequential 'box banging through the gears, stripped-out bodyshell shouting the whole effort straight down my earholes. In 2011, the cars might have a fraction less power than before, but the Mini shows there will be more-than-ample compensation. We’ll have close competition between maxed-out versions of cars you recognise, going like stink, scattering the snow and gravel to the four winds, and making a whole lot of noise while they’re at it. ---
**Author:** ![JayS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jays/32/15375_2.png) [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2010, 8:59am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/mini-enters-wrc/206983/2 "2010-12-08T08:59:07Z")
> But the Mini WRC actually arose out of pure rally-winning motives. Nearly two years ago, Prodrive established a small team of its crack engineers to design and computer-model, via their own simulation software parameters, an ideal virtual rally car for the 2011 rules - the perfect length, weight, wheelbase, centre of gravity, suspension travel, engine position and aerodynamics. Their next stage was to analyse about a dozen road cars from different manufacturers to see which would mould best over the underpinnings of their theoretical package. About four seemed OK. Guess what: two were the Fiesta and DS3. Another was the barn-doored Mini Clubman. So Prodrive went to see Mini. And around that time they got wind of the Countryman. It was even more suitable than the Clubman. > Mini was up for it, so BMW commissioned Prodrive to design the car and manage and run the works team, with six rallies for the bed-in year of 2011, and a full assault in 2012. That’s pretty interesting. ---
**Author:** ![95dime](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/95dime/32/7514_2.png) [@95dime](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/95dime)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2010, 9:12am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/mini-enters-wrc/206983/3 "2010-12-08T09:12:06Z")
sweet. ---
**Author:** ![Jeller](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bc8723/32.png) [@Jeller](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jeller)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2010, 9:17am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/mini-enters-wrc/206983/4 "2010-12-08T09:17:40Z")
Not really a fan of the the countryman looks, but the prodrive version is much cooler :tup: ---
**Author:** ![Quattro\_Krant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/ac91a4/32.png) [@Quattro\_Krant](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Quattro_Krant)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2010, 9:39am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/mini-enters-wrc/206983/5 "2010-12-08T09:39:10Z")
The countryman is so ugly it makes a Forester look appealing