and run by Prodrive. The distinctive blue with yellow colour scheme was a throwback to the early 1990s sponsorship deal with 555, a BAT cigarette brand popular in Asia. After a number of years of poor performances, Subaru announced their withdrawal from the WRC at the end of the 2008 season. On 27 July 2010, it was announced that Prodrive would re-enter the WRC with a limited programme in 2011 with BMW using the Mini Countryman. The Mini WRC Team made its debut at the Italian Rally in Sardinia in 2011. While there is no longer a works team, Prodrive continues to build and run Minis for customers in the World Rally Championship and national rally series. In 2014, Prodrive developed a new rally car based on the Volkswagen Golf specifically for the Chinese Rally Championship. The car now competes for the FAW VW Rally Team in this series with Prodrive support. Rallycross In 2013 Prodrive developed the Mini RX a new rallycross car based on the Mini WRC. It was built to FIA regulations and won on its debut in the Global Rallycross Championship (GRC) in Munich driven by Liam Doran. The car also competed in the GRC in North America. In April 2018, GC Kompetition (GCK) unveiled the Renault Mégane RS RX, the most technologically advanced rallycross car ever created. GCK appointed Prodrive to design the Mégane RS RX who subsequently operated the team in the 2018 & 2019 FIA World Rallycross Championship. Dakar/Rally Raid In 2020 Prodrive in partnership with the Kingdom of Bahrain's sovereign wealth fund, Mumtalakat created a new team called Bahrain Raid Xtreme. The team competed in the Dakar Rally in Saudi Arabia in 2021 with nine time World Rally Champion, Sebastien Loeb and two time Dakar winner, Nani Roma. Nani Roma finished fifth in the Prodrive Hunter T1 car, the highest placing for any team on its debut in the history of the event. Sebastien Loeb retired from the event. The team return to the Dakar in 2022 and this time Loeb finished 2nd and Argentinian driver, Orlando Terranova 4th. The team won three stages and set a record by becoming the first to win a stage of the event running on a sustainable fuel, made from agricultural waste. The team now competes in the new 2022 FIA World Rally-Raid Championship. Extreme E In 2021 Sir Lewis Hamilton asked Prodrive to run his