The Last Works Minis

The Mini, the car of the 20th Century and still in motorsport in 1997, 35 years after its first event. This book sets out to complete the untold recent history of the mighty  works Mini  in international motorsport. How the Mini came to be in Monte Carlo and at the famous Nurburgring battling with the giant teams such as Fiat and Citroen. Of how different manufacturers where buildingworks cars on either side of Birmingham but not knowing the other existed.I t tells the story of cars developed from 1994 up to the last group A cars of 1997, with fuel injection and six speed sequential gearboxes. The book also covers Rover’s plan to go around the world competing in various rounds of the world rally championship. It s all here, copies of Rover internal documents plus many unseen photo’s that Rover would not want you to see, if they were still around. With many unseen photo’s of the cars development, copies of Rovers internal documents, copy pages from the road books of top rallies, all of this in colour this book truly brings this previously untold story to life.