The two-wheel drive champions of the Spainish Off-Road championship, Nil Solans and Miguel Ibañez, made a spectacular debut in the PCRSport Mini Cooper on the Riolobos Rally.
The final round of the Spanish championship consisted of 8 stages over fast, rough and demanding tracks totalling 333 kms of competitive driving. Despite having no experience in the PCRSport Mini Cooper both Solans and Ibañez were looking forward to tackling the event, confident they could grind a good result out on the dusty terrain.
Their confidence proved to be well placed, the duo finishing a close second to overall winners Xevi Pons and Xavi Amigo (Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X). After some excellent stage times (including two scratch times) the duo were a mere 2 minutes 15 seconds behind the event winners and a creditable 3 minutes 49 seconds in front of the third place pairing of Vera and Lopez in another Evo X.
PCRSport's Pep Codinach was very impressed with Nil Solans debut driving the team's specially developed Mini Cooper "Undoubtedly Nil's performance and result can only be classified as excellent. Without having tested the car Nil achieved two scratch stage times and secured 2nd overall, undoubtedly this was a great result for Nil and Miguel as well as all of our PCRSport team. Once again our Mini has proved to be a very competitive car"
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