Home Criteria This month Acknowledgements Miscellaneous Newsletters Contact us Site updates Lest We Forget Selected database Cars and trucks Motorcycles, sidecars and ATVs Snowmobiles Boats Aircraft Search Enter at least 3 letters. Search in all colin mcrae escort is limited to name and surname Search into field: Given name and surname Circuit Vehicle Brand Race Notes All of these fields Return records from: All databases: Motorsport Memorial and Lest We Forget Selected database only. Notes: The son of Jimmy McRae, five-time British rally champion, Colin McRae entered his first rally in when he was 17, as soon as legally able to drive. He drove a borrowed Talbot Avenger in the Kames Stages in Ayrshire County, south-west Scotland, finishing 14th. He had already won a schoolboy colin mcrae escort championship at age Just two years later he won the Scottish Rally Championship and made his World Rally Championship debut, behind the wheel of a Vauxhall Nova. In the Swedish Rally, his first of his World Rally Championship starts, Colin McRae finished 36th, co-driven by the experienced Mike Broad who was soon replaced by Derek Ringer. McRae and Ringer developed a firm friendship that lasted for the rest of their careers, although between and Nicky Grist became Colin's co-driver, sharing with him 17 of his 25 victories. In Colin acted as co-driver to his two-year-younger brother, Alister McRae, who made his debut in the Silva Stages Rally, a minor gravel rally in Lancashire, England, driving his old Vauxhall Nova. The brothers were classified in eighth place. In the following decades Alister became a professional rally driver. Thanks to a fine sixth place in the Lombard RAC Rally, with a battered Ford Sierra RS Cosworth, only behind five factory cars, Colin McRae was signed by David Richards' team Prodrive to drive their Subaru. British rally champions in andhe and Derek Ringer were full-time members of Subaru's World Rally Championship line-up from until Winner of the New Zealand Rally in andColin McRae ended the season by becoming the first home winner of the RAC Rally in 18 years, since Roger Clark -Stuart Pegg had won inin a Ford Escort RS Despite the season did not start well, due to retirements in the opening two rallies, Monte-Carlo and Sweden, Colin McRae burst into the public conscience when he became the World Rally Champion. Colin McRae finished all the remaining rounds, winning outright colin mcrae escort third consecutive New Zealand Rally, and then the final rally and championship decider, his and Prodrive's home event, the RAC Rally. Shortly before the start of the rally, his best opponent and Subaru team mate, Carlos Sainz announced he would not be at team Prodive inhaving opted to move to Toyota - but he would eventually wind up at team Ford, colin mcrae escort the wake of the Toyota turbo scandal. This added more spice to the title fight. Came rally day and during the Pundershaw special stage, McRae lost a full two minutes due to a broken tyre, after hitting a rock. Despite he had damaged his Impreza's radiator at Donington Park, Sainz was still leading by 39sec ahead of McRae and Kenneth Eriksson in a Mitsubishi, before the start of the third leg. Colin McRae blasted through the Welsh forest, moving down into the rallying lore, and reversed the order to end the day with a 17sec lead which he maintained during the fourth leg, until he finally took the win at Chester. His astonishing performance gave Subaru its first Word Rally Championship title for manufacturers, and made him Britain's first and at 27, the series' youngest champion. A record that he still holds. Runner-up to Tommi Mäkinen's Mitsubishi for the next two years, Colin McRae finished third in points in his final year with Subaru, in In sight of the following season, he accepted a lucrative offer by Ford and Nicky Grist followed him in the new team. Unfortunately their campaign was marred by crashes and mechanical trouble. McRae extended his contract intowinning the Argentina and Cyprus rallies with his Ford Focus WRC, but losing that year's title to his former team mate and friend Richard Burnsstill driving for Subaru, who captured the championship when Colin crashed in the last colin mcrae escort, the Rally of Great Britain. Without a regular ride forColin McRae decided to compete in events as diverse as the gruelling Dakar Rally - 20th place overall, with two stage wins, co-driven by Swede Tina Thörner in a Nissan - and the 24 Hours of Le Mans. He rejoined David Richard' team Prodrive for the edition of the hour classic, taking a solid third colin mcrae escort in the GTS class, ninth place overall, in a Ferrari GTS Maranello, partnered with Rickard Rydell and Darren Turner. This was not his maiden circuit race: in he competed in the Knockhill round of the British Touring Car Championship, with a one-off appearance for the Prodrive-run BMW factory team; and in September he tried his hand at oval racing, taking part in a race of the ASCAR British version of NASCAR stock car racing at the Rockingham Motor Speedway in Northamptonshire, finishing in sixth place. McRae returned to the Dakar Rally in with Nissan, and was fastest on two of the first three stages in Morocco, before rolling over near the end of the sixth stage. Later he participated in the Forest Stages Rally in Scotland, then named "Colin McRae Forest Stages", sharing an historic Ford Escort RS Mk1 with Roy Campbell. The pair also took part in the International Manx Rally inthis time in a Ford Escort Mk2. This became Colin McRae's final rally start. His helicopter crashed at Jerviswood, Lanark, Scotland, close to the McRae family home, at 16h05 on Saturday 15 September Colin McRae was rallying's first true global superstar, the figurehead of the world's biggest PlayStation rally game, loved for his acute natural talent. One of Colin McRae's most endearing characteristics, often forgotten ahead of such a forceful personality, was his ability to make a joke out of more or less anything, including himself. Ari Vatanen, the World Rally Championship winner, once said: "Colin McRae was the James Dean of rallying". That sense of a huge and charismatic talent taken prematurely and his flamboyant driving style played their part. Home Criteria This month Acknowledgements Miscellaneous Newsletters Contact us Site updates Lest We Forget View fatalities by: Surname Year Circuit Nationality Event Role Vehicle type Vehicle sub-type Vehicle brand Related cases. Go to top of this page. Cars and trucks. Motorcycles, sidecars and ATVs. Colin McRae Complete name: Colin Steele McRae, MBE Birth date:
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