Helicopter Crash on Colin McRaes land
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GolfGT_Girl said:
Silverbullet767 said:
wasted years said:
jollygreen said:
Can I just ask the site administrators to please remove any of the inevitable jokes as soon as they are posted.
I'm sure I'm not the only person here who doesn't want to see them.
Here here!I'm sure I'm not the only person here who doesn't want to see them.
extvr said:
deevlash said:
extvr said:
RIP, im gutted, a true motoring legend, sadly missed, a true driving god, for me he was a real mans driver, if that makes sense, balls of steel, win or crash, no second. 
Or leading, roll the car, restart instantly and still finish 2nd like he did at the x-games! Im going to miss him.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xbu7JIObokk
testiment to the legend that always will be colin.
no one tried harder.
ive been around on pistonheads for a few years now.. but this is the first thing thats made me sign up as i think ive got swomething worthwhile to say.
Im currently having a bit of a "Hammond" moment i feel totally gutted about McRae.... thought go out. being in aviation myself i know how rare these events are. Let alone it happening to McRae.
My memory of McRae will always be...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ci_p6ulyTRg
He rolled the car... in typical McRae style and still only lost by a second.. what a legend!
Im currently having a bit of a "Hammond" moment i feel totally gutted about McRae.... thought go out. being in aviation myself i know how rare these events are. Let alone it happening to McRae.
My memory of McRae will always be...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ci_p6ulyTRg
He rolled the car... in typical McRae style and still only lost by a second.. what a legend!
Edited by S3_Graham on Monday 17th September 10:16
castrolcraig said:
extvr said:
deevlash said:
extvr said:
RIP, im gutted, a true motoring legend, sadly missed, a true driving god, for me he was a real mans driver, if that makes sense, balls of steel, win or crash, no second.
Or leading, roll the car, restart instantly and still finish 2nd like he did at the x-games! Im going to miss him.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xbu7JIObokk
testiment to the legend that always will be colin.
no one tried harder.
Top Man.
Muzzer said:
I'm not normally that bothered when famous people die - Whilst I have sympathy, I don't actually know them personally so they're no loss to me and my life.
However, Colin was a true legend and whilst I can't say I'll miss him personally (as I didn't know him) it's always sad when your true heroes die.
I remember the first time I heard of him - my Dad bought me a video of the 1988 British Rally championship, which Jimmy McRae won in a Sierra Cosworth. On the Scottish Rally, they cut to a young Colin in a white Vauxhall Nova (which he subsequently rolled
) and the commentating Steve Rider remarked about how far this lad could go.
If ever a man gave it 100% in every stage in every rally and every event, it was Colin. A sad loss.
I thought it was the Manx , not the Scottish. Either way it was clear from this early (first?) view of Colin on TV that he didn't know the meaning of driving for a finish. If the car drove, it was still capable of winning !!However, Colin was a true legend and whilst I can't say I'll miss him personally (as I didn't know him) it's always sad when your true heroes die.
I remember the first time I heard of him - my Dad bought me a video of the 1988 British Rally championship, which Jimmy McRae won in a Sierra Cosworth. On the Scottish Rally, they cut to a young Colin in a white Vauxhall Nova (which he subsequently rolled
) and the commentating Steve Rider remarked about how far this lad could go.If ever a man gave it 100% in every stage in every rally and every event, it was Colin. A sad loss.
I also remember footage of him and his mate (or possibly Alistair) in his garage wire brushing the TCA arm mountings off his Nova "for the camera". To then see him as a World Champion 7 or 8 years later was proof that he was the real deal and not someone who'd made it to the top because his father had all the right connctions as some had suggested.
The world of rallying will be poorer for his untimely death.
Still it should be quite a party "up there" what with Burns, Beef, Macca and Bertie Fisher, all of them rallying legends who knew how to enjoy themselves.
As one who sat on the periphery of rallying, by never really making that much effort to watch it but always knowing it was there, playing the odd rally computer game driving a Subaru from time to time, trying to fill Colin's racing shoe's!
Colin's name was the only one I knew of, cared about or had any interest in. A superb driver with an even more superb career track record to back it all up.
Calm, resolute, unassuming but lethal behind the wheel he never failed to inspire whenever I saw of clip of him on TV.
Watching him driving at Le Mans in 2004, my Father and I couldn't help but cheer him on.
He was a truly inspirational character and was to rallying what Senna was to F1. I was gutted then and I'm gutted now. An total, absolute tragedy.
My thoughts are with the family and friend's he's left behind.
Colin's name was the only one I knew of, cared about or had any interest in. A superb driver with an even more superb career track record to back it all up.
Calm, resolute, unassuming but lethal behind the wheel he never failed to inspire whenever I saw of clip of him on TV.
Watching him driving at Le Mans in 2004, my Father and I couldn't help but cheer him on.
He was a truly inspirational character and was to rallying what Senna was to F1. I was gutted then and I'm gutted now. An total, absolute tragedy.
My thoughts are with the family and friend's he's left behind.
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