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Former world rally champion Colin McRea dies

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This is so sad, he died along with his 5yr old son, his sons friend and another family friend. The helicopter they were in crashed.

[url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/6997270.stm[/url]

Sad day for motorsport.

Comments

  • ShadowDancerShadowDancer When I say, "Why aye, gadgie," in my heart I say, "Och aye, laddie." London, UK
    Yeah I saw that last night. Very sad :(

    When I was up at the hospital working on placement at the start of the summer, one of the Seniors up there was well into her rallying with her husband; usually she would navigate and he would drive, but she had also ridden shotgun for Colin McRea a couple of times.
  • SanfamSanfam I like clocks.
    This made for the second WRC champion to be lost in recent history to an unfortunate incident. The field is thinning and the world has lost one of its most skilled. More terrible is how and with whom. He will be missed :(
  • Falcon1Falcon1 Elite Ranger
    That must have been such a cool experience Shadowdancer! He sure did live on the edge, sometimes a bit too much, but then you need to be wired that way to hammer at 100mph down dirt tracks. I remember a few years ago just before his co-driver Nicky Grist parted company, they were in a race, had a bad smash, the car caught fire and Grist went to bale out. McRea tried to stop him as he wanted to stay going. Didn't go down too well with Grist.

    Must have been a huge crash, the news article said that one could not make out that it was a helicopter that had crashed, the damage was so severe.
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