MIni celebration planned

July 7, 2014

To mark the mini’s 50th anniversary, a special Mini Cup will be run in historic rallying in 2009 with support from Paddy Hopkirk in a bid to get more of the cars back in action.

Created by the Historic Rally Car Register, the Mini 50 Cup will run over eight special stage rallies and will be open to all classic-specification Minis built up to 1981.

“We want to try and get as many Minis back onto the stages as possible,” said Paul Loveridge of the HRCR. The calendar will cover four gravel rallies and four asphalt events, starting with the Red Kite Stages on January 18.

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Paul Lawrence

Here is a man who goes racing every weekend from March to October. Paul’s passion for the sport goes back to when he was a child of the 1960s. He has organised, competed in and marshalled on scores of events, and has written about the subject for 20 years. He is as at home in the paddock at Brands Hatch as in a Welsh forest or at Shelsley Walsh.

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