Hopkirk s heroic Monte Carlo victory marked with special edition Paddy Hopkirk with the new Mini limited edition model named after him and his 1964 rally car
DESPITE steering a Mini to its most celebrated motorsport win - the 1964 Monte Carlo Rally - it has taken more than half a century for the great Irish driver Paddy Hopkirk s name to be immortalised on one of the cars.
Today s Mini is obviously a very different - and larger - proposition than the 1959 original, but it retains its focus on fun and agility to stay true to the Mini go-kart spirit.
The 1964 Monte win, in which Hopkirk and his co-driver Henry Liddon won against a variety of more powerful and more fancied rivals, remains a classic giant-slaying motorsport tale, and helped cement the Mini s legend.