McRae crashes out in Mexico.
Alister McRae retired from th🥃e Corona Rally Mexico when he rolled while chasing a podium position in the FIA Production Car World Rally Championshi🧔p [PCWRC].
The Jardine Lloyd Thompson Rally Team [JLT] driver, who is co-driven by David Senior, suffered the accident while battling back up the order after dropping almost a minute on the opening stage of th✃e rally with a puncture.
"We were ꧑pushing to make up the time we h༺ad lost and I got a bit wide in a fast right-hand bend," explained McRae. "We slid into a ditch then clipped a rock. That was enough to send the car over."
Alister McRae 😼retired from the Corona Rally Mexico when he rolled while chasing a podium position in the FIA P🍷roduction Car World Rally Championship [PCWRC].
The Jardine Lloyd Thompson Rally Team [JLT] driver, who is co-driven by David Senior, suffered the accident wh💃ile battling back up the order after dropping almost a minute on the opening stage of the rally with a puncture.
"We were pushing to make up the time we had lost and I got a bit wide in a fast right-hand bend,"🐻 explained McRae. "We slid into a ditch then clipped a rock. That was enough to send the car over."
McRae was uninjured in the accident, while Senior was taken to hospital for p൩recautionary checks. He was la🍨ter released with mild concussion.
"The car is in a pretty sorry state," said McRae, who drives for the RED World Rally Team. "I don't know wh🌜at speed we were doing, but it was quick enough. We had been optimistic of keeping the pressure on the front-ꦐrunners and making up some places so it is doubly disappointing not to finish the event."
The FIA Production Car World Rally Championship is a feeder category for the full FIA World Rally Championship and McRae is hoping to use th🐓e series as a springboard back into a full-time drive with a manufacturer team in 2005.
