Colin McRae racing legends

russ979 · Post by **russ979** » Mon Jan 28, 2013 8:41 pm

Brilliant programme on an absolute hero. Does anybody else wonder if Cris hoy will venture into competitive motor sport?
I miss the 90`s WRC!:)

Post by **Stuart** » Mon Jan 28, 2013 8:46 pm

Ben wrote: was he really that good?

Yes.

Danny@APT · Post by **Danny@APT** » Mon Jan 28, 2013 9:04 pm

The thing with McRae is that he could've easily driven well within his limits, and won many more stages/rally's, but what made him a legend was how he drove every mile like it was his last. None of this rubbish they started doing in the WRC in the last few years of purposely "losing" time on the first day in order to get a better/easier position for day 2.

Since all the proper characters of the WRC have left/retired, and Loeb walked away with championship after championship, I've lost all enthusiasm for it.

Andy916 · Post by **Andy916** » Tue Jan 29, 2013 11:32 am

russ979 wrote:Does anybody else wonder if Cris hoy will venture into competitive motor sport?

Yep, he's racing a Radical SR1 this season:

http://www.pistonheads.com/news/default ... ryId=26556

Andy

Post by **Stuart** » Tue Jan 29, 2013 11:51 am

I watched this last night and was mesmerised. I thought the way they handled his talent with his occasionally 'single-minded' attitude was superb, Chris Hoy was sensitive in the way he spoke to Colin's loved ones (Thank God) and yet they didn't swerve the fact that the accident that claimed four lives was largely down to the same thing that caused him to crash when racing.

Brilliant footage and a wonderful and fitting tribute to such a huge star. I bet you Impreza owners were nursing semi's with all of that flat four action

Tommy · Post by **Tommy** » Tue Jan 29, 2013 11:53 am

The old Impreza version 7 car looked particularly fantastic!

RX7 · Post by **RX7** » Tue Jan 29, 2013 8:10 pm

Not just people with Imprezas, people without Imprezas also

Thought it was a good show and yep great mix of old and new.

Personally though I was always a Richard Burns fan.

stockcar · Post by **stockcar** » Tue Jan 29, 2013 8:55 pm

seem to recall that the only person Makkinen feared in a head to head final stage battle was Colin................

the reason he had BIG accidents was simply that he was so far committed in the first place there was no room for error, nothing to do with "someone else's car"

stockcar · Post by **stockcar** » Tue Jan 29, 2013 8:56 pm

Tommy wrote:The old Impreza version 7 car looked particularly fantastic!

whch do you mean Tommy?? the v7 WRC car is a bug-eye

russ979 · Post by **russ979** » Thu Jan 31, 2013 8:05 pm

Andy916 wrote:Yep, he's racing a Radical SR1 this season:

http://www.pistonheads.com/news/default ... ryId=26556

Andy

Aha! Thanks Andy thats answered that question.