Colin Steele McRae, MBE (5 August 1968– 15 September 2007), was a Scottish rally driver who was perhaps best known for his performance under the Subaru World Rally Team and for being the face and producer of a video game series named after him.
The son of five-time British Rally Champion Jimmy McRae and brother of rally driver Alister McRae, Colin won the 1991 and 1992 British Rally Championship, and was the first Brit and the youngest to win the World Rally Championship title, a record that he still holds. Colin later signed on to Ford in 1999 to pilot the newly-minted Ford Focus
rally car, to which he won in nine events only to leave partly due to salary issues, and saw a brief stint with Citroën in 2003. After moonlighting in various motorsport disciplines, Colin reportedly planned a reunion with Subaru for the 2008 season; he died a year before due to a fatal helicopter accident which also claimed the life of his son and two family friends.
Games produced:
- Colin McRae Rally
- Colin McRae Rally (1998)
- Colin McRae Rally 2.0 (2000)
- Colin McRae Rally 3 (2003)
- Colin McRae Rally 04 (2004)
- Colin McRae Rally 2005 (2005)
- Colin McRae DiRT (2007)
