British rally drivers English rally drivers, Rally drivers from Northern Ireland, Scottish rally drivers, Welsh rally drivers, Colin McRae, Nicky Grist, Richard Burns, Leslie Johnson, Matthew Wilson, Kris Meeke, David Richards, Vic Elford, Guy Wilks - new book

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 38. Chapters: English rally drivers, Rally drivers from Northern Ireland, Scottish rally drivers, Welsh rally drivers, Colin McRae, Nicky Grist, Richard Burns, Leslie Johnson, Matthew Wilson, Kris Meeke, David Richards, Vic Elford, Guy Wilks, Donald Healey, Alister McRae, Pat Moss, Andrew Cowan, Eugene Donnelly, Tony Pond, Tom Cave, Tony Ambrose, Michael Park, Ian Mantle, Russell Brookes, Luke Pinder, Malcolm Wilson, Gwyndaf Evans, Roger Clark, Elfyn Evans, Mark Higgins, Jimmy McRae, Niall McShea, Paddy Hopkirk, Louise Aitken-Walker, Tony Fall, Phil Mills, Peter Procter, Barry Clark, Derek Ringer, Tony Mason, Mark Lovell, David Llewellin, Patsy Quick, Steve Perez, Robert Reid, Murray Grierson, David Bogie, Roger Freeman. Excerpt: Colin Steele McRae, MBE (5 August 1968 - 15 September 2007) 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 Briton and the youngest to win the World Rally Championship Drivers' title. He still holds that record to this day. McRae's outstanding performance on 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 a helicopter accident in September 2007 which also claimed the lives of his son and two family friends. In November 2008 he was posthumously inducted into the Scottish Sports Hall of Fame. McRae was married to Alison, and had two children, Hollie and Johnny. McRae moved to the principality of Monaco in 1995, partly through his friendship with David Coulthard. However, as his young family grew up, he spent more time back at his home in Lanarkshire - accepting the higher tax liability of living in Scotland. The couple bought the 17th century Jerviswood House. Colin McRae began his competitive career in motorsport riding trial bikes at an early age, despite being more interested in four wheeled machines rather than two wheel bikes. At the age of sixteen, through the Coltness Car Club, McRae discovered autotesting, he soon traded his bike for a Mini Cooper and started competing. A year later, he began to negotiate with another club member to use his Hillman Avenger for the Kames Stages, a single-staged rally venue not far from McRae's h