Colin McRae perde la vita in un incidente aereo...

[FastFreddy]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/spo...cle2461339.ece

Nell'incidente è morto anche suo figlio di 5 anni.

Rally champion Colin McRae dies with son in helicopter crash
Tom Gordon for The Sunday Times

THE former rally driving champion Colin McRae was killed and his five year-old son feared dead in a helicopter crash yesterday afternoon. The aircraft came down in Jerviswood, Lanarkshire, half a mile from the family's home and burst into flames just after 4pm.

Jean-Eric Freudiger, McRae's agent, said the 39-year-old driver had been piloting the helicopter himself. Also on board were believed to be his son Johnny, another adult and another child. Police said there were no survivors.

McRae's wife Alison and their daughter Hollie, 9, were not on board, friends said.

McRae became Britain's first World Rally champion in 1995. He was one of the country's most successful sportsmen, achieving 25 wins in World Rally events and 42 podium places. He was a flamboyant driver, inspiring one the world's best-selling computer rally games.

The helicopter came down within half a mile of McRae's home, Jervis House, a 16th-century tower house, which has an adjacent helipad. The weather had been overcast, with a light breeze, but visibility was good.

Strathclyde police said the extent of the fire damage was making identification a problem.

McRae's wife, a childhood sweetheart and his former co-driver, was taken back to the house under police escort shortly after 6pm. She looked calm, but neighbours gathering outside the house looked shaken with grief.

McRae's friend the rally journalist Jeremy Hart who flew with the champion several times described him as a "very good, very measured pilot whose natural ability with machinery was second to none". "Colin regularly flew all over the UK and into Europe," said Hart. "He knew the terrain and conditions at Jerviswood very well. It was the place he flew into most regularly.

"As a driver Colin was misunderstood slightly as being reckless but everything you saw with him came from pure raw talent as opposed to being learnt. He was the Michael Schumacher of rally driving.

"It's so ironic that he should die in a helicopter crash when he had competed and had brushed with death so many times as a rally driver."

Additional reporting: Paul Lamarra

[feo84]

Azz..

[Bastian UMTS]

Azzo......

[FastFreddy]

Da quanto si legge, a bordo c'erano anche un altro bambino e un altro adulto. Nessun sopravvissuto...

[Dante89]

No...Davvero...

[Marci]

porca miseria, ancora non mi sembra vero
dopo Richard Burns un altro grande che se ne va

[wsHaRkw]

orca

[gabberman81]

ma ai tg non han detto niente ????

[feo84]

Originariamente inviato da gabberman81

ma ai tg non han detto niente ????

Beh...la notizia su internet è datata 16 settembre.

[momo-racing]

terribile, l'ho letto solo ora. E' incredibile come una persona che abbia fatto un mestiere così rischioso, sfrecciando a 250 all'ora all'interno di un bosco, poi possa morire in una maniera tanto banale. Lo ricordo al rally di monza del 2005, a pochi metri da me festeggiare sul podio assieme a valentino rossi. Ci lascia un campione.

[Schummacherr]

[Dante89]

Originariamente inviato da momo-racing

terribile, l'ho letto solo ora. E' incredibile come una persona che abbia fatto un mestiere così rischioso, sfrecciando a 250 all'ora all'interno di un bosco, poi possa morire in una maniera tanto banale. Lo ricordo al rally di monza del 2005, a pochi metri da me festeggiare sul podio assieme a valentino rossi. Ci lascia un campione.

E pure il bambino....

Originariamente inviato da Dante89

E pure il bambino....

la fonte dice il contrario:

McRae's wife Alison and their daughter Hollie, 9, were not on board, friends said.

[Schummacherr]

Dice solo che sua moglie e sua figlia non erano a bordo..

[feo84]

Originariamente inviato da Nerocielo

la fonte dice il contrario:

Jean-Eric Freudiger, McRae's agent, said the 39-year-old driver had been piloting the helicopter himself. Also on board were believed to be his son Johnny, another adult and another child. Police said there were no survivors.

[FastFreddy]

Also on board were believed to be his son Johnny, another adult and another child. Police said there were no survivors.

McRae's wife Alison and their daughter Hollie, 9, were not on board, friends said.

A bordo c'erano suo figlio, un altro bimbo e un altro adulto, sua moglie e sua figlia invece erano a casa.

Originariamente inviato da feo84

Jean-Eric Freudiger, McRae's agent, said the 39-year-old driver had been piloting the helicopter himself. Also on board were believed to be his son Johnny, another adult and another child. Police said there were no survivors.

ah cazzo..........la figlia si è salvata ma il figlio no....sorry ho sbagliato, anche se a sto giro era meglio se avessi avuto ragione

[Hire]

Cristo, Colin Mcrae con suo figlio... Che brutta notizia, mi dispiace veramente tanto.

[dario2]

che si può mai dire a sentir certe cose

[mcriki]

una tragedia che mi addolora moltissimo, mi sembra ieri che ho scelto McRiki come nick in tuo onore
assieme a Toivonen, per sempre tra i più grandi nel mio cuore