Mini Sport News

The 2017 Rally Isle of Man certainly proved itself to be a challenging and traitorous event for our 15 Mini crews competing in rounds 5 and 6 of the Mini Sport Mini Cup! Being both wet and windy, the conditions were at times like driving on ice, certainly not helped by the gravel being washed over the roads from the heavy rain and World Rally Cars …

MANX NATIONAL RALLY CHAMPIONS! Massive congratulations to Team Mini Sport’s Daniel Harper and Chris Campbell who after a trying weekend with alternator, driveshaft and tyre issues, persevered in Mini Sport’s new MINI JCW-01c World Rally Car, to take 1st place and be crowned Manx National Rally Champions for the second year running! A huge well done also to the service crew, for their fantastic work …

Day One: A total of 15 Mini crews decended on the Isle of Man for the 5th and 6th rounds of the Mini Sport Mini Cup, including the 3 Mini crews who join us all the way from Japan, solely for the Rally Isle of Man every year. Off to a turbulent start, Rhodri Owen Roberts & co-driver Alun Hayward were suffering with engine issues, resulting …

Continuing to introduce you to the drivers and co-drivers in our 2017 Mini Sport Mini Cup, and following on from Andy Walkingshaw, Ray Cunningham, Louise Thomas, Rhodri Owen Roberts, Jim Brindle, Andrew O’Hanlon, Clive King and Jack Hartley, we have Anton Bird! We have something a little different for you this week to go with Anton’s profile card, a write up from Anton himself! Check out what Anton has to say about his rallying …

A top five finish and two awards was the reward for Steve Entwistle when he contested last weekend’s Vale of Clywd Classic. The Rishton rallyman finished fifth overall, won the M1 Masters class, and collected the prestigious Pierce rosebowl, awarded each year to the highest placed Mini. Entwistle, winner of the 2015 HRCR Clubmans Championship, and navigator Ali Proctor, from Newcastle-upon-Tyne, were using the event …

The weekend of the 12th August marked a tremendous event for any competition Mini fan… The return of the Works Minis to Abingdon! Organised by John McIntosh and supported by Mini Sport, this perhaps ‘once in a lifetime’ event was truly something special, reuniting Works Minis with both their owners and drivers/navigators, past and present. Over 20 original Works Minis were in attendance, along with some …

Mini Girls Rally Team: Solway Coast Rally Report – 6th August 2017 Our home event, only a 500 mile round trip this time… Oh, and a ferry to Dundrennan Army Range in the Scottish boarders. Dunndrennan is an active range, so we had been warned not to stray off the rally route! Saturday afternoon I met up with Emily and the Mini, my Dad brought the …

On Sunday the 6th August, the Mini Sport Mini Cup Championship entered it’s fourth round of the season at Dundrennan Kirkcudbrightshire for the Solway Coast stages. Another well-known MOD venue, 17 Mini crews took to what proved to be quite a traitorous route in the rain spanning over 40 miles. The real battle once again boiled down to Ray Cunningham and Jared Gill against Mini Sport sponsored Clive King and Anton …

With all the work on the build of my replacement MINI now completed by Mini Sport’s own spanner wizard Michael Anderson, a proper shakedown was required. This took the form of an entry into the Solway Coast Rally near Dumfries at the weekend. The purpose was to use the event as a test to sort out car and driver as there are a few upgrades …