Alister McRae’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro Scottish rally driver
Is Rally driver 
From United Kingdom 
Type Sports 
Gender male
Birth 20 December 1970, Lanark, United Kingdom
Age: 49 years
Star sign Sagittarius

Alister McRae (born 20 December 1970) is a British rally driver who competed in the World Rally Championship. He is the son of the five-time British Rally Champion Jimmy McRae and the younger brother of the late 1995 World Rally Champion, Colin McRae.

Career

Born in Lanark, McRae took his first foray into motorsport at the age of twelve, when he took up motorcycle trials and motorcross. But it was always rallying where he would demonstrate his true colours. Starting out by competing in Scottish Rally Championship events, success wasn’t long in coming. In 1992, he won the prestigious Shell Scholarship and the production category of Great Britain’s round of the World Rally Championship.

The following years saw further triumphs, culminating with Alister winning the British Rally Championship outright in 1995, at the wheel of a works Nissan Sunny. More manufacturer drives ensued, with a two-year contract being signed to drive the Formula 2 Volkswagen Golf. He famously competed alongside his brother on a one-off basis in the Subaru World Rally Team on the Rally of Great Britain of 1998.

His results and reputation led to his services being secured by the newest manufacturer to join the World Rally Championship, Hyundai. In 1999, he competed in the front wheel drive Coupe while simultaneously developing Hyundai’s first world rally car, the Accent WRC, alongside veteran Swede Kenneth Eriksson. Then in 2000, he developed the car further during its first year of actual competition, scoring the manufacturer’s first ever WRC points. In 2001, the fruits of two years’ hard work began to show, with a series of points-scoring finishes (both drivers particularly impressing in the laborious conditions of that year’s wet Rally Portugal) and a narrow miss of the podium on his home event, the Rally of Great Britain (which gave the Accent WRC and Hyundai’s best finish in the WRC by that time).

Following his performances with Hyundai, McRae was selected to join Mitsubishi, stalwart of the WRC, in 2002. This transpired to be a difficult year, as the Japanese manufacturer found itself in turmoil, with an uncompetitive new car and a massive management re-structure. Things got even worse for the team when McRae was forced to pull out for the rest of the season due to injuries following a mountain bike crash shortly after that year’s Rally San Remo therefore further hindering the team’s championship effort. Mitsubishi subsequently pulled out of rallying at the beginning of the 2003 season, to build a new rally car from scratch, leaving McRae to piece together a sporadic privateer campaign at World Championship level, which was rewarded with a points-scoring showing in a Lancer Evolution in New Zealand.

Undaunted by Mitsubishi’s subsequent implicit resolve not to recall either himself or 2002 teammate François Delecour as the source of one of the few remaining factory opportunities sought to regroup for the 2004 season, McRae entered the 2004 Production World Rally Championship instead. He was on course to take the title on the last event before a mechanical failure struck, handing the title to Niall McShea.

2006 saw McRae successfully competing in the Chinese Rally Championship with the Wanyu Rally Team in a Mitsubishi Evo 9, along with a number of other selected international events. McRae also added to his tally of World championship appearances in the new Toyota Corolla S2000 at the 2006 Wales Rally GB, racking up four Group N stage wins.

McRae filled in for his brother Colin alongside F1 driver David Coulthard at the 2007 Race of Champions held at Wembley following Colin’s death just two months earlier.

He participated in 2009 Dakar Rally.

He drove a Proton Satria Neo Super 2000 at the Indonesian leg of the APRC 2009.

He made his FIA World Rallycross Championship debut in the 9th round of the 2017 season in France.

Racing record

Complete WRC results

Year Entrant Car 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 WDC Pts
1991 Alister McRae Subaru Legacy RS MON SWE POR KEN FRA GRC NZL ARG FIN AUS ITA CIV ESP GBR NC 0
1992 Alister McRae Ford Sierra RS Cosworth MON SWE POR KEN FRA GRE NZL ARG FIN AUS ITA CIV ESP GBR NC 0
1993 Alister McRae Ford Sierra RS Cosworth MON SWE POR KEN FRA GRE ARG NZL FIN AUS ITA ESP NC 0
555 Subaru World Rally Team Subaru Legacy RS GBR
1994 Nissan F2 Nissan Sunny GTi MON POR KEN FRA GRE ARG NZL FIN ITA GBR NC 0
1995 Alister McRae Ford Escort RS Cosworth MON SWE POR FRA NZL AUS ESP GBR 10th 10
1996 SanYang MIT Motorsport Honda Civic VTi SWE KEN IDN GRE ARG FIN AUS ITA ESP NC 0
1997 S.B.G. Sport Volkswagen Golf Kit Car MON SWE KEN POR ESP FRA ARG GRE NZL FIN IDN ITA AUS GBR NC 0
1998 S.B.G. Sport Volkswagen Golf Kit Car MON SWE KEN POR ARG GRE NZL FIN ITA AUS NC 0
Hyundai Motor Sport Hyundai Coupé Kit Car ESP FRA
555 Subaru World Rally Team Subaru Impreza WRC 98 GBR
1999 Hyundai Motor Sport Hyundai Coupé Kit Car Evo 2 MON SWE KEN POR ESP FRA ARG GRE NZL FIN CHN ITA AUS GBR NC 0
2000 Hyundai Castrol World Rally Team Hyundai Accent WRC MON SWE KEN POR ESP ARG GRE NZL FIN CYP FRA ITA AUS GBR NC 0
2001 Hyundai Castrol World Rally Team Hyundai Accent WRC MON SWE 17th 4
Hyundai Accent WRC2 POR ESP ARG CYP GRE KEN FIN NZL ITA FRA AUS GBR
2002 Marlboro Mitsubishi Ralliart Mitsubishi Lancer WRC MON SWE FRA ESP CYP ARG GRE KEN 15th 2
Mitsubishi Lancer WRC2 FIN GER ITA NZL AUS GBR
2003 Mitsubishi Ralliart Europe Mitsubishi Lancer WRC2 MON SWE TUR NZL ARG GRE CYP GER FIN AUS ITA FRA ESP GBR 17th 3
2004 R.E.D. World Rally Team Subaru Impreza WRX STi MON SWE MEX NZL CYP GRE TUR ARG FIN GER JPN GBR ITA FRA ESP AUS NC 0
2006 Alister McRae Toyota Corolla S2000 MON SWE MEX ESP FRA ARG ITA GRE GER FIN JPN CYP TUR AUS NZL GBR NC 0
2007 Taylor Motorsport Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX MON SWE NOR MEX POR ARG ITA GRE FIN GER NZL ESP FRA JPN IRE GBR NC 0
2012 Proton Motorsports Proton Satria Neo S2000 MON SWE MEX POR ARG GRE NZL FIN GER GBR FRA ITA ESP NC 0

PWRC results

Year Entrant Car 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 PWRC Points
2004 R.E.D. World Rally Team Subaru Impreza WRX STi SWE MEX NZL ARG GER FRA AUS 5th 26

SWRC results

Year Entrant Car 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 SWRC Points
2012 Proton Motorsports Proton Satria Neo S2000 MON SWE POR NZL FIN GBR FRA ESP 13th 6

APRC results

Year Entrant Car 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 APRC Points
1996 SanYang MIT Motorsport Honda Civic VTi THA IDN MYS NZL AUS BEI – 0
1997 S.B.G. Sport Volkswagen Golf Kit Car THA CHI NZL MYS IDN AUS – 0
1997 S.B.G. Sport Volkswagen Golf Kit Car THA CHI NZL MYS AUS – 0
2009 Proton R3 Malaysia Proton Satria Neo S2000 NCL AUS NZL JPN MYS IDN CHN – 0
2010 Proton R3 Malaysia Proton Satria Neo S2000 MAL JPN NZL AUS NCL IDN CHN 3rd 78
2011 Proton Motorsport Proton Satria Neo S2000 MAL AUS NCL NZL JPN CHN 1st 153
2012 Proton Motorsport Proton Satria Neo S2000 NZL NCL AUS MYS JPN CHN 2nd 120

Complete FIA World Rallycross Championship results

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Supercar

Year Entrant Car 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 WRX Points
2017 Loco World RX Team Volkswagen Polo BAR POR HOC BEL GBR NOR SWE CAN FRA LAT GER RSA 41st 0
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