WEC
McRae test Ferrari for eye on Le Mans
Colin McRae Links With Care Racing One of motorsport's most exciting stars, Colin McRae, this week joined forces with Ferrari endurance specialists Care Racing with a view to racing at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in June. Former World Rally ...
Published: Mar 25, 2004, 3:20 PM
Copy link
Share on Viber
Colin McRae Links With Care Racing
One of motorsport's most exciting stars, Colin McRae, this week joined forces with Ferrari endurance specialists Care Racing with a view to racing at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in June.
Former World Rally Champion McRae, 35, - the most successful competitor in WRC history - this year announced his intention to branch out into different areas of motorsport.
In January he competed, very successfully, in the Dakar Rally and has long been interested in competing with a well-known marque in the world's most prestigious endurance sportscar race - the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Through Care Racing's founder, Frederic Dor - a sporting friend and colleague in the rallying world - contact was made.
At a blustery and wet Snetterton, Norfolk, circuit on Monday, the Scot completed his first laps behind the wheel of a 6 litre, V12 engined, Prodrive prepared Ferrari 550 Maranello GTS. He was joined at the circuit by Swedish sportscar and touring car ace Rickard Rydell, who shook down the car and passed on his previous experiences of the Ferrari to McRae. It was too wet to record any competitive times for either driver.
The Scot was very upbeat about the prospect of an endurance race: "Le Mans is one of the great races of the world and would be a big motorsport challenge for me. I wanted to do a few of these different things this year and this would be an ideal opportunity for me to experience Le Mans. It's one race every driver would love to have a go at.
"To be able to do Le Mans with a Ferrari is just that bit extra, it being probably the most famous name in racing. It would be very special. I've known Frederic a long time through rallying and, when I found out what he had done with the 550s, we just moved it on from there."
No race contract has been confirmed but discussions are ongoing.
-www.care-racing.com
We want your opinion!
What would you like to see on Motorsport.com?
Take our 5 minute survey.
- The Motorsport.com Team
Read and post comments
Read also :
Share Or Save This Story
Copy link
Share on Viber
Next article Toyota Le Mans prototype has support from ORECA for 2012
Top Comments
There are no comments at the moment. Would you like to write one?
View More & Comment
More from
Colin McRae
On this day in 1995, Colin McRae became the UK’s first world rally champion
WRC
WRC
RAC Rally GB
On this day in 1995, Colin McRae became the UK’s first world rally champion
Our writers' favourite cars from the 1990s
General
General
Our writers' favourite cars from the 1990s
How a WRC legend first took centre stage 30 years ago
WRC
WRC
How a WRC legend first took centre stage 30 years ago
Latest news
Sammy Smith earns first NASCAR Truck win in wild Talladega finish
NASCAR Truck
NSTR NASCAR Truck
Talladega
3 min
Sammy Smith earns first NASCAR Truck win in wild Talladega finish
F1 United States GP: Charles Leclerc completes perfect Friday by topping FP2
Formula 1
F1 Formula 1
United States GP
52 min
F1 United States GP: Charles Leclerc completes perfect Friday by topping FP2
Tony Stewart: violent Talladega Truck wreck "knocked the wind out of me"
NASCAR Truck
NSTR NASCAR Truck
Talladega
1 h
Tony Stewart: violent Talladega Truck wreck "knocked the wind out of me"
Cleetus McFarland “pissed” after early Talladega NASCAR Truck crash
NASCAR Truck
NSTR NASCAR Truck
Talladega
1 h
Cleetus McFarland “pissed” after early Talladega NASCAR Truck crash
Feature
Discover prime content
Subscribe and access Motorsport.com with your ad-blocker.
From Formula 1 to MotoGP we report straight from the paddock because we love our sport, just like you. In order to keep delivering our expert journalism, our website uses advertising. Still, we want to give you the opportunity to enjoy an ad-free and tracker-free website and to continue using your adblocker.
You have 2 options:
- Become a subscriber.
- Disable your adblocker.
Subscribe now Already subscribed? Sign in here
Already disabled your adblocker?
Reload page
Manage Alerts
Subscribe