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Citroen WRC

Sebastien Loeb wins 2012 Rally de Espana

We’re a little late with the news, of course, but we can’t let Sebastien Loeb’s final act as a full-time WRC driver go unnoticed. In tricky conditions the nine time world champion won the 2012 Rally de Espana. His victory was set up with a 30 second margin back to Jari-Matti Latavla on the second […]

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Citroen WRC

Dani Sordo returns to Citroën Racing

Dani Sordo ended the 2011 WRC season with great hope. The MINI Countryman JCW WRC had shown massive potential, including two podium finishes in a reduced program. That hope continued with a second place in the 2012 season opener at Monte Carlo. And then BMW dropped a bombshell, withdrawing its factory support from Prodrive, and […]

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MINI WRC

Five questions with Chris Atkinson

Chris Atkinson’s current employer Motorsport Italia has published a short Q&A interview following his sixth place finish in last weekend’s Rally Italia. It’s all pretty standard fare, tyre selection, happy with the result; stuff like that. But the last question, and Chris’ response, tease at a possible extension of their working relationship beyond next month’s […]

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MINI WRC

Dani Sordo gets ready for Rallye Deutschland

The Prodrive twitter account brings us this video of Dani Sordo testing his MINI John Cooper Works WRC at Prodrive’s makeshift test track in Banbury. It’s a bit like a low-rent Ken Block video without the tyre smoke. The roof mounted camera gives you a great sense of speed as well. Sordo is in preparation […]

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Ford WRC

Dani Sordo confirmed as Ford stand-in

Dani Sordo will take temporary leave from his Prodrive MINI team to fill in for Ford at Rally Argentina later this month. Ford found themselves with an opening after Jari-Matti Latvala injured himself while cross-country skiing. Prodrive won’t be racing in Argentina so in some ways it made sense to utlilise Sordo’s talents. Ford hasn’t […]

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Ford WRC

Jari-Matti Latvala wins 2012 Rally Sweden

Jari-Matti Latvala has answered Loeb’s opening win of the year by guiding his Ford Fiesta RS WRC to victory at Rally Sweden on the weekend. It’s the sixth time in a row Ford has won the event. The 26-year-old Finn took the lead on the opening day and enjoyed strong competition at times from former […]

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MINI WRC

Making a faster and more reliable rally car is ‘really bloody difficult’

David Lapworth, Technical Director at Prodrive, has dropped in via YouTube to complement our recent update on the progress of the team’s new MINI WRC. The 2011 WRC season continues next weekend with Rally Mexico. Meanwhile, Prodrive has just 67 days to go until their Countryman-based racecar makes its WRC debut on 5 May at […]