As a former international rally competitor, I am dumsruck by some of the supportive (of McRae) comments being made on motorsport forums, where the appalling insurance implications for McRae's surviving family seem to go unrecognised, despite the precedent of Graham Hill's family.
Graham Hill (and another cowboy pilot Colin Chapman, who survived his aerial conduct) were of an earlier era, not much removed from the one inhabited by Mike Hawthorn, who's fatal road accident we have just been remembering 50 years on.
McRae was from a modern era, had met Damon Hill on many occasions and should have been well aware of the financial implications of his actions and given more thought to the boring paperwork.