Tonight on BBC2 10pm ,
Should be good the other two with Sir Jackie Stewart & Sir Stirling Moss where really entertaining .
Thanks for the heads up - I’d missed that.
Top gear is back as well. 
deffo gunna tune in tonight — top gear and colin “mr subaru” mcrae outstanding entertainment. saw a documentary after colin’s accident and he really was nuts - he did allsorts and providing he was going fast doing it enough he was happy, he lived life on the limit and fair play to him.
i saw a 5th gear challenge on tv last night where they had to do a timed obstacle course in a FH16 globetrotter which created much amusement.
Sport was far better when Colin McRae and people of his calibre were around, modern stars do as the big sponsors tell them.
How many of them would smoke on the podium youtu.be/wqtA0rnqssQ
good shout fella
“If in doubt, FLAT OUT!”
shame mr "if in doubt flat out " killed three innocent people by flying like a ■■■■ in a helicopter he wasnt licensed to fly-and the parents of the six yr old child he killed didnt even know he was taking their son in for a ride in the chopper.
brilliant driver,but a very arrogant man who thought it is ok to fly like he drove…■■■■■■ for killing 3 other people in a crash which was caused by his stupid actions alone…
Great driver, of that there is no doubt, but very accident prone in his early days.
I was fortunate enough to move his old man at Olivers Mount in Scarborough on a rally in his early days, as he was stood in a dangerous place. He didn’t like being told what to do by a marshal, but he had no option if he either:
A. Didn’t want to be killed
B. Wanted the stage stopping.
■■■■.
Ken.
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bubsy06:
andrew.s:
shame mr "if in doubt flat out " killed three innocent people by flying like a [zb] in a helicopter he wasnt licensed to fly-and the parents of the six yr old child he killed didnt even know he was taking their son in for a ride in the chopper.
brilliant driver,but a very arrogant man who thought it is ok to fly like he drove…■■■■■■ for killing 3 other people in a crash which was caused by his stupid actions alone…
bubsy06:
bubsy06:
andrew.s:
shame mr "if in doubt flat out " killed three innocent people by flying like a [zb] in a helicopter he wasnt licensed to fly-and the parents of the six yr old child he killed didnt even know he was taking their son in for a ride in the chopper.
brilliant driver,but a very arrogant man who thought it is ok to fly like he drove…■■■■■■ for killing 3 other people in a crash which was caused by his stupid actions alone…
■■?-why the rolleyes? tell me i’m wrong then…
Roger Clark was the best British rally driver of all.
foxy stars:
i saw a 5th gear challenge on tv last night where they had to do a timed obstacle course in a FH16 globetrotter which created much amusement.
Was it a repeat as I found this from 2008.
andrew.s:
shame mr "if in doubt flat out " killed three innocent people by flying like a [zb] in a helicopter he wasnt licensed to fly-and the parents of the six yr old child he killed didnt even know he was taking their son in for a ride in the chopper.
brilliant driver,but a very arrogant man who thought it is ok to fly like he drove…■■■■■■ for killing 3 other people in a crash which was caused by his stupid actions alone…
One of the “people” was his own son, who was with his best friend Ben. Although technically he wasn’t licensed, his licence had simply expired, it doesn’t make you any less of a driver or a pilot because of the date on the paperwork.
I remember the accident well because it was on my birthday. I also remember that they said the weather was poor at the time.
It is all very sad but I think his inexperience was partly to blame, as mentioned the weather was also to blame. There were 40 mph gusts as shown on the weather report for that area on that day.
Strangely enough there was another experienced pilot killed at the other end of the country.
Brian Brown, an experienced pilot from Doncaster, South Yorkshire, was flying the Hurricane when it crashed at Shoreham Airshow on 15 September 2007.
This was the same kind of Helicopter that killed Chelseas Mathew Harding and his son, there were several crashes using this kind of aircraft
As I said it was very sad news for the McRae family, the Porcelli’s and for any others it affected
what a programme that was and i think that giving the job of replicating colin mcrae to sir chris hoy was inspired… if you took each bit and looked at it like chris did then like him i’m in even more awe of the way that he did things.
he even tried to put summat back into rallying through creating new spec cars for the amateur and i just found the whole programme totally absorbing…
thankyou bbc for this piece of spot on broadcasting 
Think it was well presented , didnt gloss over his faults and ultimate early death. But showed him as he was living life to the full.
Like a lot of people i was brought up watching him(and playing his games) loved his attitude just go for it , but was also nice to see in the film he was also growing up and learing.
He was sweeper on the Speyside Stages in , maybe 2002 iirc, running a works Super1600 Ford Puma.
It’s one of the most awesome sights I’ve seen, looking up a straight at a long fast right hand corner. First, hearing the noise the Puma was making, then seeing the car pointing down the straight whilst still on the corner, absolutely flying sideways.
This was a big event and there were 7 ex works WRC cars running (all privateers), seeing the stage times was unreal. His Puma was 2WD with about 230 hp, he’d knocked 3 seconds off the fastest of the competitors on every single stage. Their works WRC cars were 4WD with 320ish hp.
And the best bit, as he came out of the corner and brayed it down the straight, we were on the bank looking down, he was laughing his crack off 
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bubsy06:
bubsy06:
andrew.s:
shame mr "if in doubt flat out " killed three innocent people by flying like a [zb] in a helicopter he wasnt licensed to fly-and the parents of the six yr old child he killed didnt even know he was taking their son in for a ride in the chopper.
brilliant driver,but a very arrogant man who thought it is ok to fly like he drove…■■■■■■ for killing 3 other people in a crash which was caused by his stupid actions alone…
■■?-why the rolleyes? tell me i’m wrong then…
He didn’t have certification to fly that type of helicopter, and he engaged in a series of hazardous manouvres in it.
Ultimately he flew too low and too fast and put the machine in a situation where there was not enough time or space for it to recover.
Video evidence recovered from the crash scene shows he was doing this to impress his passengers.
If he wasn’t a famous ‘celebrity’ and had been driving a car rather than flying a helicopter he’d have been rightly condemned as a yobo or whatever by the local press.
That the weather was bad on the day of the accident makes his conduct even worse: most civil helicopters and their pilots are not licenced to fly in bad weather. They are VFR (visual flying rules) only. He should never have been in the air.
The licence thing always annoyed me ,
His licence was out of date not that he wasn’t qualified to fly it.
It’s like us not doing or CPC , the law will say you can’t drive a HGV but let’s face it till the day wee die as long as physically able we would all be able to blind side into a bay!
No way would he have want to endanger his kid or his friend and his kid, maybe he was going a bit fast n low but am sure he thought he was in full control. Extremely sad end to a great man he should have been still going in some form maybe a WRC team manager .