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Biography
The following section is an excerpt from Wikipedia's Colin McRae page on 27 April 2018, text available via the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Colin Steele McRae, MBE was a Scottish rally driver, born in Lanark. The son of five-time British Rally Champion Jimmy McRae and brother of rally driver Alister McRae, Colin McRae was the 1991 and 1992 British Rally Champion and, in 1995 became the first British person and the youngest to win the World Rally Championship Drivers' title, a record he still holds.
McRae's outstanding performance with the Subaru World Rally Team enabled the team to win the World Rally Championship Constructors' title three times in succession in 1995, 1996 and 1997. After a four-year spell with the Ford Motor Co. team, which saw McRae win nine events, he moved to Citroën World Rally Team in 2003 where, despite not winning an event, he helped them win the first of their three consecutive manufacturers' titles. He was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire for services to motorsport in 1996.
McRae died in 2007 when he crashed his helicopter near his home. The accident also killed his son and two family friends. In November 2008 he was posthumously inducted into the Scottish Sports Hall of Fame.
| Date | Article | Author/Source |
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| 16 September 2007 | Colin McRae feared dead in helicopter crash | Wikinews |
| 16 September 2007 | Tragedia nel mondo del rally: muore Colin McRae  | Wikinotizie |
| 17 September 2007 | Colin McRae ist tot  | Wikinews |
| 20 September 2007 | Subaru Says Goodbye To Rally Superstar McRae | Anthony Fontanelle |
