Posted Sunday, November 24, 2024 at 9:41pm

When McRae finally conquered the rally that eluded him

The monkey was off his back. The duck broken. But a nation still expected. And 30 years ago today, Colin McRae delivered a home win nobody would forget.

A 17-year wait for a British World Rally Championship event win was done in New Zealand, 1993. A few months on from that southern hemisphere success, it looked like the Scot would eclipse Roger Clark’s RAC Rally win of 1976. For the third year in succession he led, but England’s far north did for him.

So, to 1994.