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Colin McRae: Memories of the master

To coincide with a new bookazine from the publishers of AUTOSPORT and Motorsport News honouring the late, great world rally star, David Evans casts his mind back to 1999...

The roads escape me. Windyhill and Ae ring bells. It doesn't matter. The day was about a man and his car. The woods were simply the stage on which he performed that day.

It was late summer in 1999 and Colin McRae had come home. And he'd come home in all his pomp, as the world's most expensive rally driver and star of Ford's television commercial. Most importantly, he'd brought his Ford Focus WRC with him. And he was taking it out to play the next day.

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