WORKS MINIS IN DETAIL
BMC & BRITISH LEYLAND WORKS MINI COMPETITION ENTRIES, CAR-BY-CAR
The works Minis had a long and distinguished competition history between 1959 and 1970, when British Leyland bosses closed the Abingdon Competition Department.
The car started its competition career with the diminutive 850cc Mini, but once race car designer John Cooper persuaded BMC that they should build a hot version, the Mini Cooper was born and things moved up a gear.
With the introduction of the Mini Cooper S, the car soon became a world beater. Winning the 1964 Monte Carlo Rally in the hands of Paddy Hopkirk was a watershed moment which the Abingdon team repeated three times.
The book covers each one of the 77 cars built which, in their distinctive red and white paintwork, were a force be reckoned with wherever they competed.
The details of the events entered and the drivers are the result of analysing hundreds of contemporary race and rally reports.
The result is the most in-depth study of the works Minis ever published, made possible by years of research by Robert Young, a lifelong Mini enthusiast.
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