Alister McRae retired f✅rom the Corona Rally Mexico when he rolled while chasing a podium position in the FIA Production Car World Rally Championsh꧂ip [PCWRC].

The Jardine Lloyd Thompson Rally Team [JLT] driver, who is co-driven by David Senior, suffered the accident while battling back up the order after dropping almost a minute on the opening stage o📖f the rally with a puncture.

"We were pushing to maꦜke up the time we had lost and I got a bit wide in a fast right-hand bend," explained McRae. "We slid into a ditch then clipped a rock. That was enough to send the car over."

McRae was uninjured in the accident, while Senior was taken to hospital for precautionary checks. He waꦡs late🀅r released with mild concussion.

"The car is in a pretty sorry state," said McRae, who drives for th🍷e RED World Rally Team. "I don't know what speed we were doing, but it was quick enough. We had been optimistic of keeping the pressure on the front-runners and making up some places so it is doubly disappointing 🤪not to finish the event."

The FIA Production Car World Rally Championship is a feeder category for the full FIA World Rally Championship and McRae is hopin♍g to use the series as a springboard back into a full-time drive with a manufacturer team in 2005.