1995 World Rally champion, Co🌳lin McRae will be remembered at the RACC Rally Catalunya Cos𝕴ta Daurada on Thursday prior to the official ceremonial start.

McRae was tragically killed in a helicopter accident close to his Scottish home on September 15. The Scott died along with his five-year-old son, Johnny, aౠs well as the youngster's frienඣd Ben Porcelli and family friend Graeme Duncan, who was 37.

At 7.30 pm [local time] a small public engagement 🎐will be held to pay tribute to the Scot and it will include a screening of several pic♎tures depicting him through his sporting life.

Several WRC drivers and severa✅l guests are due to attend the event ahead of the twelfth round in the 2007 FI✤A World Rally Championship, which gets underway on Friday.

"This rally s🎶hould be a tribute to Colin," said Sebastien Loeb, who worked with McRae in 2003 when they were both team-mates🔯 at Citroen.

"Before I arrived to WRC, I was told h𓄧e was a distant and closed guy, but in fact I met a really 🌜open and friendly person, a great guy."

There will also be a photographic exhibition of McRae competing in Spain in the hall of the Rally HQ in PortAventura. McRae competed on the Rally Catalunya nine times between 1995 and 2003, 🔯winning the event twice, in 1995 and 2000.