MINI 2017 Dakar Rally Media Pack now available for download.

Media Information

2017 Dakar Rally

29 December 2016

MINI 2017 Dakar Rally Media Pack now available for download.

• Media Pack available in six languages.
• Detailed car and competitor content.
• Content images available to download.

Munich. The celebrated annual Dakar Rally is an endurance spectacle of man and machine and takes place once again on the challenging terrain of South America, 2-14^th January 2017.

The 2017 Dakar Rally route will take in three countries (Paraguay, Bolivia, and Argentina) covering a distance of approximately 9000 km, of which more than 4000 km will be special stages. A longer duration at altitude has been planned for the 2017 Dakar, along with the usual assortment of strength-sapping desert-like heat, unforgiving dunes, rocky ravines and river beds. Add to this new navigation rules and the 2017 Dakar promises to be a racing spectacle of some note.

The 2017 Dakar Rally will again play host to a large “MINI Family” consisting of seven cars with selected international crews – all under the protective wing of experienced MINI motorsport partner X-raid.

The 2017 Dakar Rally will also see the race debut of the new MINI John Cooper Works Rally; a car built to win from experience gained with four successive Dakar Rally wins (2012-2015), and four FIA World cup titles.

Full details of the new MINI John Cooper Works Rally are contained within the MINI 2017 Dakar Rally Media Pack– complemented by stunning images – and a detailed analysis of the MINI Family drivers and co-drivers. Additional chapters include driver interviews, Dakar Rally facts and figures, glossary and the foreword by Mr. Sebastian Mackensen, Senior Vice President MINI.