Dan Carter looks to Jonny Wilkinson for inspiration

Dan Carter has made his much-anticipated arrival at Racing 92, vowing to emulate Jonny Wilkinson and enjoy a barbecue with Ronan O’Gara.

The former All Black, who signed off a remarkable international career by winning the World Rugby Player of the Year and claiming the World Cup for New Zealand, had his media bow delayed when he was briefly locked out of Racing’s training base in the Paris suburb of Plessis-Robinson, But once inside, he quickly laid out his ambitions for his second spell in France, citing Wilkinson’s indian summer at Toulon as inspiration.

“When I was following the end of his career, I took a bit of inspiration from that. A lot of people had probably written him off up until then but it revived his career and he finished on a real high. I can only dream of the success that he had in his time here in France. We’ll have to wait and see.”