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FULL MINI WRC CAMPAIGN FOR KOSCIUSZKO |
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Polish driver Michal Kosciuszko will keep the MINI name in top flight WRC competition this year, after announcing a full 13-round programme in a MINI John Cooper Works Countryman. |
10/01/2013 - Kosciuszko has amassed plenty of experience in the World Rally Championship, firstly in the Junior WRC, before a move to SWRC in 2010 and then the PWRC, where he was a frontrunner in 2011 and 2012 in a Ralliart Italia-run Mitsubishi Lancer.
Although MINI´s three-year WRC involvement as a manufacturer came to an end at the end of 2012, its WRC homologated Countryman can be run by private teams on a customer basis.
For 2013 the Polish ace, 27, and his co-driver Maciek Szczepaniak, will drive for the Lotos WRC team, with the car run by MINI´s former works team partner Motorsport Italia.
Team manager Bruno di Pianto is expecting his driver to make a smooth transition from Production Car specification Mitsubishi to the MINI.
'It´s a big change but Michał has an idea what to expect," he said. "He competed in a MINI on his home event Rally Poland in 2011 and is completing a 100km test this Friday in Italy in preparation for Monte Carlo. This change shouldn´t be too hard - and we´ll make it as easy as possible."
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