Rauno Aaltonen

The celebrations continued well into the evening yesterday, as guests of MINI's WRC Team launch were treated to an exuberant display of hooning by factory drivers Kris Meeke and Dani Sordo.

MINI is back in Monte Carlo and this time it's the iconic version that won the famous rally in the sixties meeting up with the latest MINI WRC that sees the brand back on the world rally stage. Rauno Aaltonen (FI) was driving the 1960s version when he was greeted at the end of the Rallye Monte Carlo Historique in the early hours of the 2nd February by Kris Meeke (GB) and Dani Sordo (ES), the drivers who will revive the brand’s rallying tradition this year with the MINI Countryman-based WRC contender.