{"id":489406,"date":"2026-02-25T10:23:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T10:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/489406\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T10:23:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T10:23:11","slug":"minis-return-to-rallying-via-the-united-states-dirtfish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/489406\/","title":{"rendered":"Mini&#8217;s return to rallying via the United States \u2013 DirtFish"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>An O2WD Sno*Drift podium for Perocapri Jr is an exciting indication of what\u2019s to come from the retro #37.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m really proud of this car,\u201d said Cristian. \u201cThis is a stock car\u2026 I mean, I have Apple Car Play. I have GPS and I can even give you the weather forecast for the next seven days!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t know what to expect, this is only my third rally coming from road racing, so I didn\u2019t really have a playbook for the snow and ice, but it was great. It is daunting coming in [to rallying] because on a road course in the US or even in Europe, every lap is almost the same. But you come here and every stage is different, every corner is different \u2013 some of it translates, but I\u2019m having a ton of fun.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Like his dad, he\u2019s wondering why he waited so long to answer the call of the stage. So much so that he\u2019s got some advice for those racers thinking about rallying.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo all my road racing friends,\u201d he smiled, \u201cget here now, because this is like the best thing ever!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That aspect has never changed. And now, thanks to commitment of Mini USA and the unyielding enthusiasm of the Perocarpi family, the legend lives on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An O2WD Sno*Drift podium for Perocapri Jr is an exciting indication of what\u2019s to come from the retro&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":489407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,224675,224676,224677,224678,100591,224679,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-489406","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ara","10":"tag-ara-2026","11":"tag-cristian-perocarpi","12":"tag-luis-perocarpi","13":"tag-mini","14":"tag-mini-usa","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}