Jimmy McRae (born 28 October 1943) is a British former rally driver. Jimmy White, 25 years on from the last of his six snooker world final defeats, tells Donald McRae about some interesting nights out with Alex Higgins The widow of former world rally champion Colin McRae has won a battle to create a luxury housing development next to family's mansion near where her husband and son died. Campbell Roy, McRae’s ex-business manager, said the tragic star wrongly thought he had a lifetime pilot’s licence. Aside from his rallying career, McRae has maintained and run a very busy plumbing business in his home town of Lanark. He was highly successful in the British Rally Championship, winning the title five times in 1981, 1982, 1984, 1987 and 1988. Yesterday, Mr McRae's father Jimmy told the Scottish Sunday Express that the tribute has brought back mixed emotions, as he struggles to read such emotional recollections of … But he said McRae was a careful flier. Mr McRae, 39, his five-year-old son Johnny, the boy's six-year-old friend Ben Porcelli and Graeme Duncan, 37, all died when the aircraft came down near the McRae … The widow of Colin McRae, the world rally champion, is planning to create a luxury housing development near the where her husband and their son died in a helicopter crash.Alison McRae, 48, has applied Jimmy and his wife Margaret had three sons, Colin, … In the European Rally Championship for drivers, he was runner-up in 1982, while his highest placing in the World Rally Championship was fifteenth in 1983.