Corgi VA12300 Subaru Impreza – World Rally Championship, Monte Carlo Rally 1998

McRae and Grist entered the 1998 season, their second in partnership, in an optimistic frame of mind after two years of mixed fortune that had seen Colin win rallies, and Subaru take the manufacturer’s crown, but not yielded the second (and first joint) World Driver’s Championship the pair craved. Despite wins in Portugal, Corsica and Greece 1998 was another season punctuated by frustrating reliability issues. Most notably a turbo failure whilst spectacularly leading Rally Australia, meaning the Subaru duo ended the season third. Their Impreza WRC 98 is modelled here at the first event of the season, the Monte Carlo Rally, where Colin and Nicky finished third. Colin rounded off the 1998 season by winning the Race of Champions on the Canary Islands, an event that pits the best drivers in the world from different disciplines against each other in identical machinery.