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Rally champion: Colin McRae

Rally champion: Colin McRae

Ulster rally fans in tribute to hero McRae

Tuesday, September 25, 2007

A week after his death in a helicopter crash, Ulster fans of former world rally champion Colin McRae paid a last poignant tribute in the Subarus he made famous.

More than 70 owners of the rally-breed Subarus drove in convoy through mid-Ulster at the weekend, remembering their hero.

Colin came here as a young Subaru driver to win the Circuit of Ireland Rally in 1991 and the Ulster Rally in 1992, a stepping stone to becoming the youngest - and Britain's first - world rally champion.

His success spawned a whole generation of Subaru enthusiasts, among them Paul Murray, who organised the convoy tribute in the wake of last Saturday's horrific accident which killed the 39-year-old Scotsman, his son Johnny and two friends.

From Cookstown, the convoy travelled through Draperstown, Maghera and Magherafelt.

The McRae family have revealed that Colin and Johnny will be buried following a private funeral this week, and a Service of Celebration will take place at 4pm in their home town of Lanark next Sunday.

The service will be relayed from St Nicholas Church, Castlegate, out onto Lanark High Street, which will be closed to traffic.

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