A Truly sad day,
I first saw Colin in action here on The Isle of Man whilst visiting the Manx International Rally in 1990.
Marshalling at the dog kennels, Glen Roy stage, Martin Rimmer missed the 90 left and took the slip road & T boned the hedge.
Colin Also misses the corner (Braking a tad late!!) but put the Sierra Cosworth sideways through the slip road, touchs the bank with drivers side BUT is already pointing the right way and was gone within a blink.
Then many times here again in the Subaru Legacy RS, back then i used to bring a group of marshalls over for the event from Devon and one of them (Barry Luxton) summed it up perfectly,
I put him at Brandywell Cottage on the Druidale stage, it was wet,cold bleak,foggy and just generaly orrible and when i picked Barry up he was almost purple with the cold, but he said it was worth it just to see Colin coming through the stage flat out and the only one that year not to lift off going through the cattle grids!
Having moved over here 11 years ago and having had 5 Impreza's now it was undoubtably seeing colin do what he did best that brought me into subaru's.
He was a frequent visitor to the Island (2 wheels & 4 wheels) many of us where lucky enough to see him in a monster battle with phil collins in their respective Escort Mk2's on the National rally earlier this year.
He will be sadly missed here on Scooby Island
R.I.P Colin
Richard Prouse
Silverton Motor Club
Stage Sponser & Ex Stage Commander
Manx International Rally/ Rally Isle of Man
SIDC R/O Isle of Man