Colin McRae feared dead

[Hellfire_WZ]

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-1284286,00.html

Bloody hell... Still not confirmed if he was on board, but still...

[infoxicated]

I think he's dead for sure - the media are just playing it safe for a change. There's no way at all that Colin McRae wouldn't have issued a statement by yesterday evening if he was alive and kicking.

What's worse is that his little son was with him.

Richard Burns and Colin McRae in the space of a couple of years... sucks. :(

[The Gracer]

Wow.

I remember, back in the mid nineties (sp?), the NZ Rally used to go through a HUGE reserve up the road from my house (in suburbia, strangely enough) called Totara Park - i would walk up the hill with my step father and wait eagerly to see the blue 'rex fly through a tricky downhill chicane/sweeper complex we frequented.

What a loss. Another name who is truly up there with the greats of rallying that will be sorely missed.

:(

[infoxicated]

Confirmed in this article: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/more_sport/article2461339.ece

:(

[stin]

Pretty tragic and thinking of his family.

stevie:(

[Mark Of Insanity]

I was hoping this would be proved to be false...

It seems so odd - one moment he is there and the next, there is nothing.
And that he didn't die racing... Someone at our school died with their father like this, I think. Maybe the safety of helicopters is over rated?
I didn't even know that Richard Burns was dead until yesterday, because of this news.

[lunar]

That is such sad news.

[Asayyeah]

True , this is a bad news for all passionnated people of Rally car and for his family, but legends never die , they still living in our memories.

[cybrpnk]

I too was hoping that this might not be true...but i googled it and the first article was the Times online one...

:(

Tis a sad day...RIP Colin and all in this tragedy...He will be missed for being such a legendary racer who feared nothing...