- Jimmy McRae
WRC driver
Name = Jimmy McRae
Caption = McRae on a stage rally in Scotland. April 1993
Nationality = flagicon|UK British
flagicon|Scotland Scottish
Years = 1976–1989
Teams = Vauxhall,Opel ,MG Rover
Races = 20
Championships = 0
Wins = 0
Podiums = 2
Points = 56
First race = 1976RAC Rally
Last race = 1989RAC Rally Jimmy McRae (b.
October 28 1943 ,Lanark ) is a Scottish rally driver. He is the father ofWorld Rally Championship driversAlister McRae , and the late 1995 World Rally ChampionColin McRae . Aside from his rallying career, McRae has maintained and run a very busyplumbing business in his home town.McRae was highly successful in the
British Rally Championship , winning the title five times in 1981, 1982, 1984, 1987 and 1988. In theEuropean Rally Championship for drivers, he was runner-up in 1982, while his highest placing in the World Rally Championship was fifteenth in 1983.Throughout his career, McRae drove for a number of different teams, reaching a pinnacle during his spell in the Rothmans Rally Team, driving an Opel Manta 400. During his time at "Rothmans", his team mates were
Ari Vatanen ,Walter Röhrl andHenri Toivonen . He then progressed to the venerable MG Metro 6R4.Though mostly retired from motorsport now, McRae still occasionally competes on historic rallies and some
Scottish Rally Championship events, with some occasional outings on theWales Rally GB . In 2006 he won the [http://www.rogeralbertclarkrally.org/ Roger Albert Clark Rally] in a Stobart Motorsport sponsored Mark 2 Ford Escort.In September 2008, McRae was one of a number of ex-world and British champions to take part in the "
Colin McRae Forest Stages Rally" in memory of his son, who died in 2007. He drove aPorsche 911 on the rally. The impressive entry list included ex-World Championship driversHannu Mikkola ,Ari Vatanen ,Björn Waldegård ,Stig Blomqvist , Malcolm Wilson,Russell Brookes ,Andrew Cowan andLouise Aitken-Walker .External links
* [http://www.rallybase.nl/index.php?type=profile&driverid=2890 Rallybase Data page]
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