MINI has won the 2012 Dakar rally. More exactly, X-raid Team driver Stéphane Peterhansel and co-pilot Jean-Paul Cottret won the South American rally in their No. 302 MINI ALL4 Racing. There is another MINI on the podium as the X-raid Team MINI No. 305 took second place. All five X-raid Team MINIs finished in the top ten.
| 01 | #302 | Peterhansel/Cottret | MINI | 38:54:46 |
| 02 | #305 | Roma/Périn | MINI | 39:36:42 |
| 03 | #301 | De Villiers/von Zitzewitz | Toyota | 40:08:11 |
| 04 | #312 | Novitskiy/Schulz | MINI | 41:06:40 |
| 05 | #303 | Gordon/Campbell | Hummer | 41:11:39 |
| 06 | #319 | Alvarez/Graue | Toyota | 43:00:38 |
| 07 | #307 | Sousa/Garcin | Great Wall | 43:25:10 |
| 08 | #309 | Leal dos Santos/Fiuza | MINI | 43:58:04 |
| 09 | #314 | Ten Brinke/Baumel | Mitsubishi | 44:06:04 |
| 10 | #304 | Holowczyc/Fortin | MINI | 45:54:24 |
See the final results on the Dakar website.
View X-raid Team photos from their Facebook album and website gallery.