LONDON, Sept 26, 2007 (AFP) - Nearly 200 mourners gathered Wednesday for the funeral of Scottish former world rally champion Colin McRae and his five-year-old son Johnny who died in a helicopter crash.

Family members, Formula 1 racing legend Sir Jackie Stewart, Rangers and Scotland football captain Barry Ferguson and IndyCar champion Dario Franchitti were among those at the service at Daldowie Crematorium, near Glasgow.

The bodies of McRae, 39, and his son lay in the same coffin which arrived in a three-car cortege.

McRae's wife Alison and daughter Hollie, his father Jimmy and other relatives then walked into the chapel amid the sounds of 'Sitting On The Dock Of The Bay,' by Otis Redding, one of McRae's favourite songs.

The service was in part conducted by Reverend Tom Houston, who married McRae and his wife.

Mourners included Mark Porcelli, father of six-year-old Ben Porcelli, a friend of McRae's son who also died in the September 15 crash of the driver's Squirrel Two aircraft in the grounds of his Lanark home in southern Scotland.

McRae's widow Alison and daughter Hollie attended Ben's funeral earlier in the week.

Graeme Duncan, 37, who lived in France and had gone to school with McRae, was the fourth person who died in the crash.

Colin Steele McRae, a licensed pilot, was born in Lanark on August 5, 1968.

He competed in his first rally on the World Rally Championship circuit in Sweden in 1987, earning his first win in New Zealand in 1993.

Driving a Subaru Impreza 555, the Scot won the 1995 World Rally Championship in a nail-biting finish on home soil and was the runner-up in 1996, 1997 and 2001.

He was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) by Queen Elizabeth II in 1996.

The driving legend was also known for 'Colin McRae Rally' - a series of racing video games which have sold more than eight million copies worldwide.