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09-17-2007, 08:57 AM
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| Newstwattie  | Colin McRae rallying legend As I'm sure most of you know already Colin Mcrae was killed tragically in a helicopter crash along with his young son and two other persons. If any of you would like to leave condolence messages to the McRae family you can do so here: Colin McRae MBE 1968 - 2007 Colins driving history: 1988 * Peugeot junior rally team 1991 * wins British Rally championship with Subaru 1992 * wins 2nd British Rally championship with Subaru * wins every round 1993 * WRC debut with Subaru * first WRC win - New Zealand Rally 1994 * Subaru WRC - FULL TIME * 2 wins 1995 * wins World Rally Championship with Subaru * 2 wins 1996 * Subaru WRC * 3 wins * championship runner-up to Makinen 1997 * Subaru WRC * 5 wins * championship runner-up to Makinen 1998 * Subaru WRC * 3rd 1999 * joins Ford Focus WRC team * 6th 2000 * 2nd season with Ford * 2 wins * finished 4th overall 2001 * 3rd season with Ford * Ford Focus WRC * finish championship runner-up 2002 * 4th season with Ford * Ford Focus WRC * becomes the first driver in history to achieve 25 World Rally wins (when he won the Safari Rally in July 2002) 2003 * joins Citroen WRC * finish 6th overall 2004 * Paris-Dakar debut |
| His Wife is a figment, he's married to his right hand, the twat. | |
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09-17-2007, 09:19 AM
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| Divine Penguin   Realname: Craig Robinson Join Date: May 2006 Location: Rochester, UK Age: 39
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| The oddestthing is that Dave Richards and his wife (chief of ProDrive) nearly met the same fate coming back from Belgium last night, only hours after making tribute to Colin with the media. From the sounds of things, he was making a final approach to Stansted in his helicopter when the 'transmission failed'. It landed badly and turned on its side, but luckily they were able to walk away from the crash. Because he was talking to air-traffic control at the time of the failure, the emergency services were there almost as he hit the ground. Coincidence or what? |
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09-17-2007, 11:16 AM
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| This time you see   Join Date: May 2006 Location: (Northern) England
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  | Very odd coincidence- Dave Richards is a lucky man indeed. Was very shocked to hear this, Colin McRae is a bit of a legend for people my age especially- him and Tommi Maakinen are credited with pretty much singlehandedly making Japanese "rice rockets" cool- everyone I know wanted a Subaru Impreza 22B for years after that win. He's a great loss to motorsport, and I'm sure will be missed greatly. |
| Here comes the water, It comes to wash away the sins of you and I. This time you see- like holy water, it only burns you faster than you'll ever dry. | |
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09-17-2007, 11:55 AM
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| Project Lead on SFM Film  | I read about this last night on Teletext, also with the crash in Tilland, it’s like yesterday was not a good day to fly. |
| “Well, I guess wiping out 2 billion people sort of qualifies as a dick move.  ” - Guerrilla TH&B Project: Fighter 2 | Ships of the Naraka Empire | Ships of the Commonwealth of Solaris | |
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09-17-2007, 12:06 PM
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| SFM Obsessed  Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: On average, The Atlantic technically!
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| Cheers for the link Andrew. |
| "Supposedly Cousteau and his cronies invented the idea of putting walkie-talkies into the helmet. But we made ours with a special rabbit ear on the top so we could pipe in some music". - Steve Zissou | |
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09-17-2007, 01:15 PM
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| This time you see Join Date: May 2006 Location: (Northern) England
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| *is just glad he landed on saturday...* |
| Here comes the water, It comes to wash away the sins of you and I. This time you see- like holy water, it only burns you faster than you'll ever dry. | |
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09-17-2007, 06:55 PM
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| Moderator With Rocks In   Join Date: May 2006 Location: Southampton Age: 25
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| It was very sad news indeed - very sad news at the end of a bad week in motorsport generally - and Dave Richards is a very very lucky man indeed. McRae was definitely a legend though; he did a lot to make the WRC as popular as it is today. |
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09-17-2007, 07:40 PM
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| SFM Obsessed  Realname: Simon Join Date: May 2006 Location: Never Never Ever Forever Land Age: 26
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Was about to say the same thing... Its as if some one was trying to bump off some top rally people :/ I hope the police are going to treat this suspisously... | |
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