Television loves the Dakar Rally with its crisp ... 100 trucks and 70 buses - the gigantic logistical machine that moves a mini-city in the desert from stage to stage and keeps the show ...

Up close, the Mini ... Dakar was a serious navigational challenge – Mark Thatcher, then the son of the prime minister, and two team-mates went missing for six days after getting lost on the 1982 ...

The Mini WRC Team will be competing in the 2011 World Rally Championship with the John Cooper Works Countryman, as modified by legendary performance company Prodrive. The team was recently ...