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Awesome! Just awesome!
Well i can easily say that was one of the best hours of TV i have watched in a long long time! emotional to say the least! i'm not afraid to admit that there was a tear in my eye.
i think Chris hoy did a good job.
It reminded me how gutted i was when i heard about the Heli crash, i'll still remember being so excited to see him on the rally stage when i was younger, and how much of a pleasure it was to meet him and Jimmy at the McRae Forest Stages in 2004.

Very deserving of the title Legend!
 
Why does everyone still idolise Colin McRae? He killed his own son, another child and destroyed two families with his reckless flying. If it had been a footballer driving a car like a tool that had ending up taking the lives of three other people including two children would the reaction be the same?

Colin McRae is not a hero, a 'great' or someone to be looked up to.
 
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Em3bbs said:
Why does everyone still idolise Colin McRae? He killed his own son, another child and destroyed two families with his reckless flying. If it had been a footballer driving a car like a tool that had ending up taking the lives of three other people including two children would the reaction be the same?

Colin McRae is not a hero, a 'great' or someone to be looked up to.
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Nobody is condoning what he did in the helicopter incident, nor are the forgetting, that was a tragic mistake always was and always will be, but what is done is done, he made a mistake, and payed for it dearly, unfortunately he wasnt the only one involved.
However, people prefer to remember the good that he did rather than focus on the negative, you have to understand the massive influence on motorsport colin had, he was massively talented, he acheived what very few people and even less british people have acheived, he was a genuine nice person as well.
hold a grudge if you wish thats up to you, however i will personally always hold him in the highest regards dispite what happened.
 
If it had been a group of chavs with their kids in the back of a Corsa driving recklessly through a council estate we'd all consider it darwinism. I was a big McRae fan but there is no getting away from the fact that had he survived the accident he'd probably have been locked up for the deaths of three other people including two children. No, sorry I can't think 'what is done is done' or the even worse 'Savile' defence of 'but he achieved so much'.
 
Em3bbs said:
If it had been a group of chavs with their kids in the back of a Corsa driving recklessly through a council estate we'd all consider it darwinism. I was a big McRae fan but there is no getting away from the fact that had he survived the accident he'd probably have been locked up for the deaths of three other people including two children. No, sorry I can't think 'what is done is done' or the even worse 'Savile' defence of 'but he achieved so much'.
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The fact you're merely even slightly comparing McRae and Savile in any sense beggars belief to me.
 
That was an amazing episode, Hoy certainly did present that very well and it was good to see McRae's dad kind of co-presenting it to help keep the facts in check. Yes it's a shame what happened with the helicopter and many have said that what he did there was something quite unspeakable, but for what he has done for British Motorsport and sportsman amongst youngsters (in-particularly Scottish) is something of legendary status.

He rightfully deserves to be called a legend and I still felt like he was the best Rally driver ever - he just over pushed the boundaries of the car, he would've won so many more titles otherwise. ^^;
 
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The fact you're merely even slightly comparing McRae and Savile in any sense beggars belief to me.
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I'm not - and I knew as soon as I posted I knew it would be the only thing in my post that would be responded to in a Godwin's law type way in an attempt to discredit anything else. Silly me for allowing that opportunity.
 
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The fact you're merely even slightly comparing McRae and Savile in any sense beggars belief to me.
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Well, they both destroyed the lives of children. :confused:

I agree, though, it was an unwarranted comparison. It's like comparing a guy who misjudged a corner and hit a kid with his car with a guy who deliberately drove up the pavement outside a school.
 
Em3bbs said:
If it had been a group of chavs with their kids in the back of a Corsa driving recklessly through a council estate we'd all consider it darwinism. I was a big McRae fan but there is no getting away from the fact that had he survived the accident he'd probably have been locked up for the deaths of three other people including two children. No, sorry I can't think 'what is done is done' or the even worse 'Savile' defence of 'but he achieved so much'.
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Because McRae actually achieved something in his life?
 
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