2019 Mini John Cooper Works hatch review: Munich to the Nürburgring

It was a last-minute thing – driving the latest Mini John Cooper Works on a 1000km round-trip from BMW’s press car centre in Munich to the famed Nürburgring for a glimpse of the next Works GP prototype for the first time. Notwithstanding the fact that I’d just spent the last 24 hours in the air en route from Australia and was now looking at a 550km drive, I was wide awake and looking forward to letting the Mini off its leash for what I was hoping would be no more than a three-hour blast.