Mini ends works WRC programme

Mini is to withdraw its financial support for its works team - WRC Team Mini Portugal - at the end of this season. The team's drivers Chris Atkinson and Paulo Nobre face an uncertain future with the Motorsport Italia-run squad following an announcement by Dr Key Segler, senior vice-president of Mini business coordination and brand management, on Friday. Segler said: "Mini will abandon its works involvement in the WRC at the end of the 2012 season." FIA World Rally Championship regulations stated that Mini had to contest every round of the season for its WRC machine to fulfil its homologation obligations

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