Colin McRae season, it was McRae who had to look elsewhere for 2004. David Richards, McRae's former boss at Subaru, who had by now taken over WRC's commercial rights holders ISC and worried that the loss of a character like McRae would damage his ability to market the sport, set about trying to help McRae find a drive for 2004. McRae was unable to find a team, and for the first time in over ten years he would not be competing in the World Rally Championship. As the only other potential alternative suitors, Subaru instead eventually chose Mikko Hirvonen to partner Petter
Colin McRae: Dirt Johnny, and two other people who were family friends of the McRaes. In response to the death and after an agreement was made with the McRae family, Codemasters withdrew a major advertising campaign for the PlayStation 3 version of "Colin McRae: Dirt". "Colin McRae: Dirt" was met with positive reception. It currently has a score of 84% and 84 out of 100 for the PC version, 84% and 83 out of 100 for the Xbox 360 version, and 83% and 83 out of 100 for the PlayStation 3 version according to GameRankings and Metacritic. 500,000 copies were sold worldwide in