Lotos Team WRC

The team was formed by Motorsport Italia team manager Bruno di Pianto from the remains of the WRC Team Mini Portugal^[2] (which closed at the end of the 2012 season)^[3] with the support of Polish oil conglomerate Grupa Lotos. The team was scheduled to contest the 2013 season with a Mini John Cooper Works WRC driven by Polish driver and 2012 Production Car World Championship runner-up Michał Kościuszko.^[1] However, the team abandoned the Mini John Cooper Works WRC halfway through the season and withdrew their entry from the Acropolis Rally to focus on changing to the Ford Fiesta RS WRC, making their debut with the new car at the Rally d'Italia in Sardinia.^[4]

Although the team was recognised by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile as a manufacturer team for the 2013 season, only the team's best eight results from thirteen rallies will be counted towards the team's final points tally.^[5] Ultimately, the team only contested seven rounds of the championship; after competing in Sardinia, Kościuszko skipped Rally Finland before returning for Rallye Deutschland in what would be his final appearance during the 2013 season.

The team finished the season in eighth and last place, with twenty points and a best finish of seventh place in the Rally d'Italia.

Year	Car	Driver Co-driver	Rounds													WDC	Points	WMC	Points
			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13
2013	Mini John Cooper Works WRC	Michał Kościuszko Maciej Szczepaniak	MON 10	SWE 14	MEX Ret	POR Ret	ARG Ret	GRE WD								18th	7	8th	201
	Ford Fiesta RS WRC								ITA 7	FIN	GER Ret	AUS	FRA	ESP	GBR

Notes:

• ^1 — Although the team is recognised by the FIA as a manufacturer team, only the best eight results from thirteen rallies were counted towards the team's final points tally.^[5]