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RobotRocker
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 Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 9:18 pm Post subject: A sad end to a bad week for motorsport,Colin McRae 1968-2007 |
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/more_sport/article2461339.ece
FUCK. FUCK. FUCK.
Unreal. And his 5-year old son as well. And its coming up to the 2 year anniversary of Richard Burns death from a brain tumor as well.
Can this year get any worse? Its always either death or scandal now.
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GcDiaz
Joined: 04 Dec 2006
Location: Clinton, MA
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| Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 11:17 pm |
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DiRT was a McRae game, no?
It's a real shame. This can be his tribute.
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km
Joined: 05 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 11:35 pm |
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| GcDiaz wrote: |
| This can be his tribute. |
Holy shit.
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RobotRocker
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| Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 11:49 pm |
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| GcDiaz wrote: |
DiRT was a McRae game, no?
It's a real shame. This can be his tribute. |
DiRT was the last game to have the McRae name(In Europe at least). It wasnt as prominent as before and Codemasters were lining up Travis Pastrana as the newer cover name as McRae was starting to take a more behind the scenes role in Rally also. McRae was only doing the X-Games events and some exhibitions.
I was about to post that clip also, but its a perfect indicator of how great a driver McRae was, that he could simply recover from an accident so quick and without hesitation and still claim second place at his age. He probably would have done it again this year if it wasnt for the plastic barrier his car got caught on.
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Burp
Joined: 21 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2007 1:35 am |
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2007 do it again :(
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Gironika
Joined: 05 Dec 2006
Location: Dragon Range
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| Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 6:11 pm |
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What a sad day ... not only for us racing-enthusiasts, I have to point out. He was one of the greatest racing drivers you could imagine, doing well in Le Mans, WRC and Dakar, something that, say, Michael Schumacher can't proove up till now - being able to drive one kind of racecar fast is impressive, doing so with whatever you get hold of is another thing.
You can see how great a driver he was in that tribute-like video ... such car control when driving right at the edge of what can be done - that's what made us, and me, enjoy every time we saw him.
It's a shame I never saw him racing live. Damn...
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Touran
Joined: 06 Dec 2006
Location: New York
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| Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 8:26 pm |
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Robert Jordan died yesterday before he could finish the Wheel of Time.
Bad times were had by all.
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slipstream
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Joined: 05 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 8:59 pm |
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Robert Jordan wasn't exactly a good author.
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taidan
Joined: 05 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 9:19 pm |
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| I always managed to watch WRC when I found it somewhere while channel surfing. Its the only type of racing event I can say that for. I can thank watching Colin race for that. |
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kael
Joined: 04 Dec 2006
Location: Mountain View, CA
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| Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 10:21 pm |
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| Touran wrote: |
Robert Jordan died yesterday before he could finish the Wheel of Time.
Bad times were had by all. |
You're next, Koontz! |
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rye
Joined: 06 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 1:45 am |
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| taidan wrote: |
| I always managed to watch WRC when I found it somewhere while channel surfing. Its the only type of racing event I can say that for. I can thank watching Colin race for that. |
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