BRC Features Hollie McRae toasts Jimmy McRae’s career Legacy, lineage, dynasty. These are words often reserved for ancient legends, aristocratic families with their descendants flowing back through centuries, the Royals even. Then how… Read more by DirtFish Media August 15, 2024 5 min
BRC News Jimmy McRae to make BRC return after 30 years His son Colin became a World Rally champion. His son Alister became a British Rally champion. His grandson Max was born and has then become… Read more by Luke Barry August 1, 2024 2 min
Rally Features The Irish Tarmac event that’s a thorn in Cronin’s side And relax. Everything is as it should be again. It’s Easter weekend and the Safari and the Circuit of Ireland are running simultaneously. Last time… Read more by David Evans March 29, 2024 3 min
BRC Features How the McRaes dominated the British championship In the 14 years between 1981 and 1995, one family dominated the British Rally Championship. Clan McRae. Jimmy still delights in the fact he has… Read more by David Evans March 1, 2024 5 min
Rally News Max beats Alister and Jimmy at McRae Rally Challenge Max McRae couldn’t have been clearer. Forget the fact this was his first ever rally in a Rally2 car, the 18-year-old had his sights set…. Read more by Luke Barry July 3, 2022 2 min
Rally News Max McRae’s bittersweet Australian championship debut Seventeen-year-old Max McRae won an astonishing 14 from 17 stages in the Production class on this weekend’s Australian Rally Championship round, the Forest Rally, but… Read more by Luke Barry May 22, 2022 2 min
Rally Features The lost win that gives Max McRae hope for the future Max McRae’s relaxed about the situation. He’s not stressing. He knows he’s got time. And he knows he’s still got the march on Dad and… Read more by David Evans April 7, 2022 3 min
Rally Video The world’s most famous Mk2 Escort DKP 191T? Or maybe POO 505R? Actually, neither. Try IB780. What am I talking about? The world’s favorite Ford Escort RS1800. The world’s most famous… Read more by David Evans April 5, 2022 10 min +
WRC Features What cost McRae the 2001 WRC title “At the time the notes just came out and he chose his line, but then when it corkscrewed us through the air we had this… Read more by Luke Barry November 28, 2021 10 min +
WRC News McRae Rally Challenge finally gets a date in 2022 The second running of the McRae Rally Challenge – twice postponed due to COVID-19 – will finally run in summer next year to mark the… Read more by Stephen Brunsdon November 8, 2021 2 min
WRC Features When McRae juggled danger to win his first Acropolis with Ford Saturday morning, Acropolis Rally, 2000. Colin McRae has a plan. The Mendenitsa stage, just south of Lamia, has a double jump near the finish. The… Read more by David Evans September 9, 2021 2 min
Rally Opinion Max McRae column: I was stoked to get back out there! After completing his first rally in three months on Saturday, Max McRae tells us all about it, his lockdown time, and what’s coming next, in… Read more by DirtFish Media August 22, 2021 2 min
WRC Features How it Started: Jimmy McRae Would you know much about – or even have heard of – Lanark had the McRae clan not taken the world of rallying by storm?… Read more by Luke Barry August 2, 2021 5 min
WRC Features Competing with Mikkola: What it was like Swapping co-drivers and the loss of Finnish rally legend Hannu Mikkola are two of the early storylines from the first two rounds of this year’s… Read more by DirtFish Media March 8, 2021 5 min
WRC News Revealed – McRae’s secret early Ford Escort test Twenty-three years on from when it happened, DirtFish can reveal Colin McRae tested a Ford Escort with a view to leaving Subaru to move to… Read more by David Evans November 18, 2020 3 min
Rally News Max McRae to enter first ‘blind’ rally this weekend Max McRae needs to listen to his five-time British Rally Champion grandfather Jimmy more than ever this week as he prepares for his first shot… Read more by David Evans November 4, 2020
WRC Features Rally GB Retro: The other Brits who excelled at home We’re all familiar with wildcard entrants in motorsport, particularly when said entrant enters a round of an international championship that is happening on their doorstep…. Read more by Luke Barry October 31, 2020 5 min
Rally Video The one-off McRae rally car designed for pure driving I remember the conversations. I remember them well. Colin McRae had had enough. Enough of active this and anti-lag that. He’d spent some time in… Read more by David Evans October 26, 2020 3 min
