WRC * World Rally Championship

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Esta es una triste noticia para todos los que gustamos del rally

Colin McRae murio en un accidente de helicoptero

Colin McRae falleció anoche en un trágico accidente de helicóptero. A falta de confirmación oficial por parte de la policía, el agente del ex piloto de rallies, Jean-Eric Freudiger, confirmó que era McRae quien conducía el helicóptero accidentado. Se sabe que no iba solo, aunque se desconoce la identidad y el número de sus acompañantes, todos fallecidos, tras la explosión del aparato. Su hijo, Johnny, de cinco años, sin embargo, parece ser uno de los fallecidos. Y es que el accidente fue de tales dimensiones que la policía se vio incapaz de dar datos sobre las víctimas mortales.

“Sobre las 16.10 horas del sábado 15 de septiembre del 2007, los servicios de emergencia recibieron una llamada que informaba de un accidente de helicóptero en Jerviswoo”, indicaba el informe policial. Los primeros datos eran confusos ya que el avión había ardido “como una bola de fuego”, según comentaron los testigos. Pero, a pesar de las reservas de los agentes, no tardó demasiado en trascender que se trataba del helicóptero del ex campeón del mundo de rallies Colin McRae. “No podemos confirmar cuánta gente gente iba abordo” dada la magnitud de la tragedia, lamentaba una portavoz de la policía local que, junto al cuerpo de rescate y los bomberos, llegaron de inmediato a la escena del accidente.

“No hay supervivientes”

Poco después, en un comunicado, la policía hacía oficial lo evidente: “No hay supervivientes”. Sin embargo, continuaron sin dar más datos sobre las víctimas: “No habrá identificación oficial de ninguna de las personas que ocupaban el helicóptero durante esta tarde –por la de ayer–”.

Algunos medios británicos, no obstante, remitiéndose a fuentes cercanas a la familia, ya ponían nombre y apellido a dos de los ocupantes del aparato caído: Colin y Johnny McRae. Y es que estaba previsto que el ex piloto estuviera volando a Glasgow en el momento de la explosión.

Confirman que era McRae

A última hora de la noche, la posible muerte del escocés se hacía real. Era su agente, Jean-Eric Freudiger, quien confirmaba que Colin pilotaba el helicóptero que había ardido en llamas a pocos metros de la residencia McRae, en Jerviswood. También se encargaba de aportar luz sobre la identidad del resto de pasajeros. Según tenía entendido, el ex piloto viajaba acompañado de su hijo Johnny, otro niño y el padre de éste. Todos ellos perdieron la vida. En casa se habían quedado su esposa Alison y su hija mayor, Hollie, de nueve años.

La policía centra sus esfuerzos, ahora, en identificar a las víctimas para poder hacer oficiales sus muertes, al tiempo que trata de esclarecer las causas que llevaron al helicóptero de McRae a desplomarse en pleno vuelo.

Rival y amigo de Sainz en los 90

Extremadamente tímido e introvertido, el mejor piloto escocés de todos los tiempos compartió con Carlos Sainz la época dorada del Mundial de Rallies, en la década de los 90. Debutó en el complicado Rally de Suecia en 1987 y, con un palmarés de 25 victorias y 42 podios, Colin McRae se proclamó campeón del mundo en 1995 con Subaru, convirtiéndose en el primer piloto escocés en conseguirlo.

McRae y Sainz fueron compañeros de equipo en Subaru y Ford, lo que les llevó a protagonizar momentos de gran tensión y rivalidad, a pesar de que al bajarse del coche hacían gala de una excepcional relación y amistad.

El piloto, hijo del cinco veces campeón británico de rallies Jimmy McRae, acababa de cumplir 39 años, estaba casado con Alison y tenía dos hijos. El escocés, que se caracterizaba por su habilidad para ir al límite sobre cualquier tipo de superficie, disputó su último Rally la temporada pasada, en Turquía. Antes, no había podido resistirse a la tentación del Dakar, en el que debutó en 2004 al volante de un Nissan oficial, con el que logró dos victorias de etapa. Colin regresó al desierto africano al año siguiente y tenía previsto volver a sortear las dunas este año. No sabía el fatal desenlace que el destino tenía planeado para él.

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Parce Q Vaina La Muerte De Ese Man... Pero A Todos Nos Toca, Hey, Yo Como Fanatico De Subaru, Veo Muy Estrambotica La Forma Del Nuevo Impreza 2008, Como Le Van A Recortar La Cola Asi, El Impreza Sti Va A Ser Clasico Siempre, Lo Mismo Q El 206 Q Tambien Sacaron....parceros, Una Chimba De Toopiic!!!

Hombre Andrés538, venia precisamente a poner algo sobre Colin...es una lastima la forma en que murio...especialmente pq tambien murieron su hijo de 5 años y un amigo de este de 6.

McRae fue considerado siempre como el piloto más rapido sobre grava...nos dio maravillosos momentos en el rally, en el dakar y en Le Mans. Se nnos fue un grande, dentro y fuera del coche. Paz en su Tumba...

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Colin McRae 1968 - 2007

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Colin McRae, who died in a helicopter crash aged 39, was the Scottish rally driver who won the world championship in 1995, the first Briton to do so.

His 25 WRC event wins brought him considerable international recognition and spread even amongst those who preferred virtual racing, when a computer game endorsed by him became the most successful console rally game ever.

Though rallying, unlike Formula One, does not lend itself especially well to television coverage, and offers its drivers commensurately less in the way of fame and financial reward, McRae’s win brought him a degree of stardom and considerable financial success: in addition to the Sony Playstation game, which went through several incarnations and is now available on a range of platforms (which will soon include mobile phones) he attracted lucrative sponsorship deals and lent his name to a sportswear brand.

For a while, after his win on the Safari Rally in 2002, McRae held the record for the greatest number of wins in the WRC.

advertisementHe also took part in the Paris-Dakar Rally in 2004 and raced at Le Mans.

Colin Steele McRae was born on August 5, 1968, at Lanark, the son of Jimmy McRae, a rally driver who was British champion five times.

Cars dominated the household: Colin’s younger brother Alister would also go on to become a successful driver, while a third brother, Stuart, chose the safer option of selling cars.

Colin showed his first interest in vehicles at the age of two, and was encouraged to drive “as soon as my feet could touch the accelerator” (as his interviewer noted: “Not, mark you, the brake”).

But as a child two-wheeled vehicles – mountain bikes and scramblers – occupied much of his attention; he became junior Scottish moto-cross champion.

“I hated school,” he admitted. “I sat there all day and waited for the bell to go so that I could get back to my bikes and motorbikes. That’s all I ever wanted to do, to race, be fast, to be world champion.”

He left school with five O-grades and spent a year trying to work as a mechanic but, unable to land a permanent job, soon joined the family plumbing and heating company.

Even when he moved to Monaco for tax purposes, he was pleased to have the security offered by the fact that he could always make his living as a plumber.

His active career in rallying began in 1986, in a Talbot Sunbeam, and the following year he took part in his first world championship rally, in Sweden, driving a Vauxhall Nova.

In 1988 he won the Tweedies Rally in southern Scotland, with his co-driver Alison Hamilton, whom he was to marry.

The next year, having progressed to a Ford Sierra XR 4x4, he came 15th in the Swedish rally and fifth in New Zealand, in a rear-wheel drive Sierra Cosworth.

His natural talent, and in particular his fearlessness in hitting the floor and apparent ability to corner through gaps slightly narrower that the car he was in, soon gained the young McRae widespread attention and comparisons with his hero, and later team-mate, Ari Vatanen.

He also made a speciality of “guttering”, slotting the near-side wheels of the car into the shallow trench at the edge of a forest track and, applying full power, using the traction to guide the vehicle around the corner.

For all his speed, consistency seemed to elude him in the early years. However, by 1991, by which time he had joined Suburu, his technique had matured, and ambition had concentrated his focus.

He took the British Rally Championship that year and retained the title in 1992; the next year he took his first WRC event, driving the Suburu Legacy RS in New Zealand.

In an Impreza he did it again for the following two years, and also took the Network Q rallies in 1994 and 1995.

He was generally accepted to be the fastest man in the world on gravel. But he also experienced some terrible luck: his car caught fire in Portugal and in Corsica he crashed, badly damaging his right cheekbone and eye socket.

Then he was disqualified from the Acropolis rally for holding up other racers while repairing a windscreen.

In Argentina he set the fastest time on the first two stages but at the end of the day was in fifth, having damaged his suspension.

Starting at full-tilt the next day, he misheard a pace note from Derek Ringer, his co-driver, and ended up in a ditch with three wheels, then ruined the car by continuing to drive it for a further 12 kilometres.

After that, though, his career blossomed.

His win in the 1995 championship was not only the first British triumph in the event, but made him, at 27, the youngest to have clinched the title.

He was runner-up in 1996 and 1997, third in 1998, and runner-up again in 2001.

He moved to Monaco, where he had a flat overlooking the Ste Devote corner on the Grand Prix circuit, and also bought a house at Verbiers where he retired for the skiing season.

All his other hobbies were equally adrenaline-packed: windsurfing, mountain biking and motorbikes remained favourites: he balked at golf, which he found frustrating.

As his family grew up, he returned to live in Scotland, travelling to the continent in his Squirrel helicopter.

In 1999 he transferred to the M-Sport Ford team, winning the Safari and the Portuguese rallies in a Focus.

In 2003, after a couple of years of mixed fortune (but during which he had secured the record for WRC event wins), he moved again, to Citroën; but the partnership was not a success, and he had no wins that season, and finished seventh overall.

His 25th WRC win came in the Inmarsat Safari Rally in 2002, with Nicky Grist as his co-driver.

During his year out from rallying in 2004, McRae worked on the development of his own car, the R4, which he had been due to race later this year.

He returned to rallying in a Skoda Fabia in Wales, placing seventh, and had bad luck with his clutch in Australia.

Last year, he competed for Subaru in America’s first televised rally in Los Angeles: he turned the car over and destroyed a wheel. He still came second.

He filled in for the injured Sebastien Loeb at the Rally of Turkey, but failed to make the top 10.

He was appointed MBE in 1996.

Colin McRae’s helicopter crashed near his home in Lanarkshire on Saturday, killing him and his five-year-old son Johnny, and two other passengers.

He is survived by his wife and their daughter.

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Este video es de los X-Games del 2006 (Creo) es espectacular...Colin demuestra el contro que tiene sobre el auto en cualquier superficie...y el final es lo mejor...veanlo, es un tributo a uno de los mejores.

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Esta es una declaración del padre de Colin al respecto de la muerte de su hijo.

McRae Family Statement
Speaking on behalf of the whole family, Colin's father, Jim McRae, said today:

"It is with much sadness and regret that we have to make this statement.
It is unbelievable that Colin and Johnny's lives have been taken so prematurely and in such a tragic manner.
Colin was a great son, a loving husband to Alison and a fantastic father to Johnny and his big sister Hollie. Johnny was a great wee guy, spending every spare minute with his dad, and even at this early stage it looked like he had the potential to carry on the family dynasty.
Our thoughts are also very much with the families of Ben Porcelli and Graeme Duncan. Ben was a great buddy of Johnny's and they had always spent a lot of time together both in and out of school. Graeme, who now resides in France, had been a close friend of Colin's since their schooldays and was back in Lanark on holiday.
We are thankful for the overwhelming number of messages of support we have received from all around the world. Colin was very much an inspiration and role model to motorsport fans the world over.
As you can imagine this is a very difficult time for the family and we would ask that our privacy be respected and we be allowed to grieve in private."

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Algunas Fotos de Colin en acción...con Skoda en el 2005, Citroën en el 2003. Y la Ferrari que manejo en Le Mans en el 2004, donde termino 9º

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Toda la vida desde que conosco de competencia me ha gustado mucho el rally y por los lados de los carros el mejor todos es el subaru Impreza WRC 2007.