Mini John Cooper Works Rally

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.