Mini’s imminent return to the World Rally Championship carved a grin on many faces and now we have video footage of their Countryman WRC prototype undergoing intensive testing at Ponte de Lima in Portugal.
We’ve covered the deets on the car in our earlier reports here and from the looks of it, the car is on track to achieve its target of making it for selected rounds of next year’s championship before running the entire season in 2012.
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Source: CarScoop
