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The 15th edition of the Hungarian Baja ended with double celebration for Mini Motorsport and motorsport partner X-raid, when the two Mini John Cooper Works Rally entries finished one-two overall. Joan "Nani" Roma and co-driver Alex Haro cheered the loudest when they took the overall win as a result of three Special Stage wins and never dropping out of the top three in the other stages. Roma had another reason to smile: he last competed at a Hungarian Baja in 2013 and took the win. Five years later, he returns to win again. Roma and Haro didn’t have it all their own way. They were pushed to the end by fellow Mini Family crew of Jakub "Kuba" Przygonski and co-driver Tom Colsoul. In fact, it was the young Polish star that opened the scoring by taking the win in the Super Special Stage that kick-started two days of racing. Przygonski and Colsoul also secured stage wins but the final result was fought out over the last stage and featured stretches of water that held Przygonski back just ...
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