An inquiry blames rally champion Colin McRae for causing the helicopter crash in which he died along with his five-year-old son and two family friends. Started in 1998, the franchise has been a critical and commercial success and is generally acknowledged as a pioneer of realistic rally sports racing games. Air accident investigators are due to resume work at the site of a helicopter crash which killed former world rally champion McRae. Colin McRae Rally, and more recently Dirt, is a racing video game series developed and published by Codemasters. Colin McRae Rally and Dirt 2 have since been developed and published for Mac OS X by Feral Interactive.. The scene after the helicopter in which former rally world champion Colin McRae was flying crashed, near his home in Lanark, in Scotland, 17 September 2007. He died in a helicopter crash in 2007. McRae’s no-holds-barred driving style later inspired a video game that brought rallying to a wider audience.

The last moments of a helicopter flight which crashed, killing Colin McRae and three others, is described at an inquiry.