A British sports car owned by rally legend Colin McRae is for sale on Auto Trader.

Former World Rally Champion Colin McRae bought the Radical SR3 directly from the British sports car manufacturer, based in Peterborough, in 2006.

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Colin McRae’s old Radical uses a tuned motorcycle engine which pumps out more than 250bhp and accelerates from 0-60mph in just 3.2 seconds and on to a top speed of almost 160mph.

The motoring world was left shocked last year when Colin McRae was killed along with his son and two family friends when the helicopter they were travelling in crashed in Lanarkshire, Scotland.

McRae became one of motor racing’s greatest celebrities thanks to his fighting spirit and spectacular driving style and success.

He is most famously remembered behind the wheel of the blue and gold Subaru Impreza he piloted to victory in the 1995 World Rally Championship.

He achieved further fame after lending his name to the Colin McRae rallying series on the Sony PlayStation games console.

More than 300 Radical SR3s have been built, but this is a rare road-legal car which can be driven on public roads as well as Silverstone or Brands Hatch.

A Radical SR3 similar to Colin McRae’s but fitted with a turbocharger smashed the lap record for a production car at Germany’s infamous 14-mile-long Nurburgring Nordschleife, with a time of 7 minutes 19 seconds.

McRae’s car has been fitted with an optional ‘high-downforce’ package, and has a huge rear wing to give the car awesome stability and handling at high speeds.