Colin McRae – The People’s Champion
Colin was the son of Jimmy McRae who was a five-time winner of the British Rally Championship. McRae was the eldest of three brothers; his middle brother, Alister, who he himself was also a rally driver.
McRae began his competitive...
Michèle Mouton – The Queen Of Rallying
Michèle Mouton grew up in Grasse in the south of France and began co-driving for friend Jean Taibi on the 1972 Tour de Corse. A switch to the driver’s seat came from 1974 in an Alpine A110 – a...
Ayrton Senna – The Rain Master
Senna was highly athletic, excelling in gymnastics and other sports, and developed an interest in cars and motor racing at the age of four.
Senna's first kart was built by his father using a small 1-HP lawnmower engine. Senna started...
Craig Breen – Our Craig
Climbing through the ranks
From such an early age you knew Craig was destined to do great things.
Craig was the son of Ray Breen, a national champion in Irish rallying. He began karting in 1999 in Ireland. He began...
Sabine Schmitz – Queen of the Nürburgring
Following occasional drives with the family car on the Nordschleife, all three Schmitz sisters started racing, but only Sabine continued and went on to achieve several notable victories.
Schmitz had become synonymous with the Nurburgring, the 14-mile circuit in Germany...
Ken Block 1967 – 2023
Ken Block famous for his gymkhana videos on YouTube tragically lost his life in a snowmobile accident at the age of 55.
He started his rallying career by participating in the X-Games, an annual extreme sports event organized, produced and...
Rosemary Smith – The Flying Lady
Rosemary Smith, born on 7 August 1937, has passed away peacefully on 5th December at the Beacon Hospital in Dublin.
Rosemary etched her name in the annals of motorsport history as a pioneering rally driver from Dublin, Ireland. With a...
Jimmy McRae – The Godfather Of British Rallying
When we talk about McRae rally family, the most rewarded family in the history of British rallying, with eight national championship titles, the first person we think about is the 1995 world champion, Colin McRae. His brother Alister also...
William Dunlop – The Gentle Dunlop
5 years ago, tragedy struck once again in the Dunlop Family Circle when William lost his life when racing in the Skerries just outside of Dublin.
It was a shock, something which many people thought we would see the...
Colin Turkington – The King Of Consistency
Born in Portadown, Northern Ireland Colin was raised into a bike-racing family (his grandfather and father having sponsored the road-racing exploits of Isle of Man TT winner Phillip McCallen) in 1982, it was two-wheeled action that the young Colin...