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Video: Mini Countryman WRC

Handbrake turns and smoking tyres as Prodrive lets Henry Catchpole drive the new Mini WRC car

by: EVO team

5 Sep 2011

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Henry Catchpole was the first UK journalist to be allowed to drive the new Mini Countryman WRC car and this is a short video of his rather enjoyable afternoon. The test track was Prodrive’s private facility at Kenilworth – tight, technical and ideal for a few handbrake turns... The £450,000 cars were being shaken down before being shipped out to Germany where Dani Sordo would go on to score a podium in the team’s first ever tarmac rally.

You can read more about driving the new Mini WRC in issue 162 of evo on sale on Wednesday 14th September 2011.

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