Kris Meeke and Dani Sordo must wait until 5th May to join the current FIA WRC season, the two MINI WRC Team drivers are both on the Algarve for the Rally de Portugal, which takes place this weekend as part of their preparation for the 2012 season when the MINI WRC Team will compete at every round of the World Championship. Dani and Kris took part in the "Recce" which allowed them to drive the course on the Algarve twice to familiarise themselves with the course.
Whilst there, Kris and Dani met the two private MINI teams set to participate in the WRC this year, Armindo Araujo and Daniel Oliveira. Araujo, the reigning P-WRC champion, and will drive a MINI John Cooper Works S2000 for Motorsport Italia in Portugal. Oliveira lines will participate as part of the Brazil World Rally Team in the second MINI in Portugal.
[Source:
MINIMotorsport.com]
