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DOCUMENTARY REVIEW

COLIN Mc RAE: 25 YEARS A CHAMPION

Twenty-six minutes to mark 25 years since Colin McRae was crowned the youngest-ever World Rally champion – aged 27 – at Chester Racecourse on 22 November 1995. That’s an undeniably tight window of television time in which to celebrate the seminal achievement of the WRC’s most famous driver, a triumph that garnered considerable page space in the national newspapers.

Making the task even harder for WRC documentary, is that the BT Sport and WRC+ broadcast doesn’t just focus on the RAC Rally season finale or even the 1995 season as a whole. Instead, it tracks back – albeit briefly, as required – a full decade earlier to McRae’s competitive rallying debut.