Ford Sierra Ex Colin MCrAE D936UOO
Discussion
Hello,
I'm a french young collector and I would like to have some information about the Ford Sierra RS Cosworth D936UOO, the previous owner bought it to R-E-D Motorsport in 1992 and he told me it's an Ex Colin McRAE GrN car.
If somebody have some information or pics about this car, I'm very interested.
Thank you
I'm a french young collector and I would like to have some information about the Ford Sierra RS Cosworth D936UOO, the previous owner bought it to R-E-D Motorsport in 1992 and he told me it's an Ex Colin McRAE GrN car.
If somebody have some information or pics about this car, I'm very interested.
Thank you
this car was built for the Mcrae clan in 1989 as a two pronged campaign, for Jimmy to tackle overall honours and for Colin to tackle group n. If you can find some back issues of Rallysport magazine Jimmy Mcrae had a column in there which gave all the reason as to why they chose to do this. ( basically because it had no purpose for the pair of them to beat each other in the same car.)
i have a video of the entire 1989 BRC season, but its been 15 years or so since I last watched it. Anyway, FYI David Llewellin won the championship in a TTGB Celica.
BAck to the topic. Colins main competition that year came from Pentti Airikkala in a Gp N Galant and David Middleton in a Grp N Celica. Colin was generally the fastest of the three during the year - but crashed a lot. I can't quite remember what happened on that year's opening round ( Cartel rally - Yorkshire) but Pentti won group N and finished well inside the top ten, I have a feeling Colin was close to him on pace but stuffed it. On the circuit of ireland he was absolutely dominating gp N by something like 8 minutes when he rolled it with just a couple of stages to go... he eventually finished 12th. on that years welsh he stuffed it big time, absolutely knackered it, but on the scottish he beat the 4wd airikkala to take take a gp n win and sixth overall, he also took 3 outright fastest stage times, ( in a group n car), on that years ulster rally he stuffed it again, and the decision was made to transfer colin to his dad's spare group a car. with it he ran in the top 3 on the manx beofore the diff broke.
so he only did 5 rallies in that car and stuffed it on 4 occasions, but got one group n win on the scottish.
it may interest you to know that this was the year that colin was also campaigning a presspart group a sierra on the national scene and won a few events with that as well.
hth.
i have a video of the entire 1989 BRC season, but its been 15 years or so since I last watched it. Anyway, FYI David Llewellin won the championship in a TTGB Celica.
BAck to the topic. Colins main competition that year came from Pentti Airikkala in a Gp N Galant and David Middleton in a Grp N Celica. Colin was generally the fastest of the three during the year - but crashed a lot. I can't quite remember what happened on that year's opening round ( Cartel rally - Yorkshire) but Pentti won group N and finished well inside the top ten, I have a feeling Colin was close to him on pace but stuffed it. On the circuit of ireland he was absolutely dominating gp N by something like 8 minutes when he rolled it with just a couple of stages to go... he eventually finished 12th. on that years welsh he stuffed it big time, absolutely knackered it, but on the scottish he beat the 4wd airikkala to take take a gp n win and sixth overall, he also took 3 outright fastest stage times, ( in a group n car), on that years ulster rally he stuffed it again, and the decision was made to transfer colin to his dad's spare group a car. with it he ran in the top 3 on the manx beofore the diff broke.
so he only did 5 rallies in that car and stuffed it on 4 occasions, but got one group n win on the scottish.
it may interest you to know that this was the year that colin was also campaigning a presspart group a sierra on the national scene and won a few events with that as well.
hth.
HI All
I found this post an would like to add to it.
I have a ex R-E-D presspart car Gpn N which was used by Colin in the the scotish forests as see on Colin Mcrae the early years DVD. The reg was D350 SLV and he also drove the sister car grp A Q293 GHG. Cyrill Boton built the both cars and I had alot of information from both himself and Mark Lowe, but I lost all the info when my computer harddrive crashed. This thread awakened my interest again.
I have the car 50% restored at this stage, as the car had been rallied in Ireland for 10 yrs after colin Drove it.
Love to get more info on this car.
Have not been able to speak to either men since.
I found this post an would like to add to it.
I have a ex R-E-D presspart car Gpn N which was used by Colin in the the scotish forests as see on Colin Mcrae the early years DVD. The reg was D350 SLV and he also drove the sister car grp A Q293 GHG. Cyrill Boton built the both cars and I had alot of information from both himself and Mark Lowe, but I lost all the info when my computer harddrive crashed. This thread awakened my interest again.
I have the car 50% restored at this stage, as the car had been rallied in Ireland for 10 yrs after colin Drove it.
Love to get more info on this car.
Have not been able to speak to either men since.
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