McRae, the son of former World Rally Championship driver Alister and nephew of the late 1995 WRC champion Colin, jumped aboard a Ford Fiesta Rally3 automotive for a maiden outing in JWRC equipment in Poland final week.
The 18-year-old accomplished 100 miles of operating within the M-Sport Poland-built four-wheel drive Fiesta on asphalt roads, earlier than endeavor a tour of the M-Sport workshop in Krakow.
The outing follows a debut within the British Rally Championship on the Nicky Grist Levels spherical final month, and a run on the Donegal Worldwide Rally throughout a visit from his native Australia, the place he has been contesting the Australian Rally Championship.
McRae says the take a look at within the Rally3 automotive has satisfied him that the JWRC is the following logical step in his rally profession, with plans to affix the championship subsequent yr beneath approach.
“There’s extra energy, extra torque than the Fiesta Rally4 and, with it being four-wheel-drive, there’s no wheelspin off the road,” stated McRae.
“What I actually like is that it’s a automotive it’s important to get in and actually drive – whenever you work that bit more durable, the automotive comes alive and delivers a lot. I used to be actually impressed.
Max McRae
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“Like you’ll be able to think about, I used to be fairly eager to do JWRC anyway, however now I’ve pushed the automotive I simply know that’s the place I’ve bought to be.
“The possibility to drive that automotive on rounds of the World Rally Championship is completely the best way to go and that’s what we’re working actually exhausting in direction of now.
“To maneuver from rallying in Australia to going to the world championship is a step up in funds, however it’s additionally an unbelievable alternative to take expertise of rallying on the highest stage on surfaces and occasions just like the snow in Sweden, the tarmac in Croatia after which tough and easy quick gravel in locations like Sardinia and Estonia.
“I don’t know what the calendar might be for subsequent yr, however occasions like which can be the dream and a particular option to take expertise.”
McRae will now return to Australia for the Gippsland Rally (27/28 August) spherical of the Australian Rally Championship, the place he’ll drive a Most Motorsport-prepared Subaru Impreza WRX.
