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Old 03-02-2012, 03:32 AM
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The BMW Group is expected to terminate its contract with Prodrive tomorrow, ending the Banbury firm's involvement in the Mini World Rally Team - and casting doubt over the future of the programme.

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Old 03-02-2012, 09:15 AM
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that didnt take long...
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Its been an abortion from day 1.
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very sad if mini pull out of wrc altogether...
seemed to get some good results...

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If they do split with Prodrive and go to someone else, what happens to the cars, I mean Prodrive developed them, do they have some intellectual property there?
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Not a chance - bmw fund the cars and would own them
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