Author: Bryan Purves
Author: Tim Brenchley
The Mini, the car of the 20th Century and still in motorsport in 1997, 35 years after its 1st 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 building "works" cars on either side of Birmingham but not knowing the other existed.
It 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 Rovers plan to go around the world competing in various rounds of the world rally championship.
Its all here, copies of Rover internal documents plus many unseen photos that Rover would not want you to see, if they were still around. With many unseen photos of the cars development, copies of Rovers internal documents, copy pages from the road books of top rallies, all of this in color this book truly brings this previously untold story to life.
Format: Hardbound
Pages: 304
Length: 6.6875w x 9.375h
ISBN-13: 9781845840877
ISBN: 1845840879
Catalog ID: 145963