MINI All4 Dakar again in 2012

Earlier this year the MINI Countryman made its Dakar Rally debut. For a first outing the car was doing quite well, too. That’s until it crashed out in rather spectacular fashion during a test run on the rest day.

Team X-raid is following the ‘if at first you don’t succeed, try and try again’ mentality and is readying itself for another assault on Dakar in 2012. They’ve been kind enough to share some footage of their practice sessions in South America, which you can now see after the break.