Crash.net:
Colin McRae was tragically killed 7 days ago. That has obviously overshadowed things here. Is there anything you would like to say in tribute to him?
TM:
Well I handled the one minutes silence here and we read out a few tributes. I knew him extremely well. I knew him when he was 17-years-old and on his very first RAC Rally we did a TV programme about him. I helped him get onto that rally in a little tiny Vauxhall Nova. Ever since then I knew him and I interviewed him right the way through to his world championship wins. I was very close to him. We had a good relationship, I did a lot of interviews with him and we use to have quite a laugh sometimes. I always remember that whenever he broke down or crashed or something happened I would always be there and he couldn't believe it. Whenever I interviewed him and said: ‘Are you going to get to the finish?' He would always say: ‘No problem Tony' - and it became like a saying and everybody said: ‘No problem Tony'. They even had T-shirts made with that on. When he won the world championship and the RAC in Chester in 1995, I was on the finish ramp to do a live TV interview. When he drove up I was the first person to speak to him on camera with the microphone and there were 50,000 people at Chester race course and my first question was: ‘How was that then?' and everybody shouted out ‘No problem Tony'. It was fantastic. So I have got lovely memories of Colin and his family. I feel very sad about it like everybody else here.
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