Colin McRae, legendary rally driver and winner of the 1995 World Rally Championship driver’s title, is dead after a helicopter crash. All that’s left, essentially, is to officially identify the bodies, but McRae was believed to be piloting the helicopter and there were no survivors. Also on board was his five-year-old son and friends of the family, including another child.
In memory, two YouTube clips—one from his long, storied career in the WRC, and a much more recent clip from the X Games. Watch the X Games clip all the way through and you’ll see why McRae is considered one of the top rally drivers ever.
It hasn’t even been two years since the rallying world lost world champ Richard Burns to a brain tumour. The sudden loss of McRae hurts just as much. RIP.

