Posted Friday, October 4, 2024 at 9:44pm

Video: Carlos Sainz vs Colin McRae head-to-head battle

Head-to-head super special stages used to be all-the-rage in the World Rally Championship. They were, and remain when still used, the only time that you get to see active rally legends in current rally machines do their thing, actually side-by-side. It also sometimes brings up battles of all-time greats. Like this time that Carlos Sainz and Colin McRae went at it.
We’re a long way back in history for this, with McRae and Sainz team-mates at Subaru in 1994, a season before their legendary title fight – the outcome of which we all know. So tight would that fight become that in places the rivalry became quite bitter, with even those at the top of the team stepping in to try and influence outcomes.