#mcerlean

[rallidergisi]

Yetenek mi, Maddi Destek mi? M-Sport’un Tartışmalı Tercihi

M-Sport Ford’un, 2025 Dünya Ralli Şampiyonası (WRC) için İrlandalı pilot Josh McErlean’i tam sezon yarışacak sürücülerinden biri olarak seçmesi, motor sporları camiasında geniş yankı uyandırdı. McErlean’in, geleneksel anlamda bir “pay driver” (kendi bütçesiyle yarışan sürücü) olarak tanımlanması, bu tercihin nedeninin performansından ziyade finansal desteği olduğu yönündeki eleştirileri…

Yetenek mi, Maddi Destek mi? M-Sport’un Tartışmalı Tercihi

[travelingangel]

Boy saved brother’s life in Australian flood [VERY touching but tragic story!!]

[Read another touching story but this one is a heroic but TRAGIC story!!! This made me WEEP more!!]

Boy saved brother’s life in Australian flood

By Liz Goodwin

Jordan Rice, a 13-year-old Australian boy, has emerged as a tragic-heroic figure in news accounts of the disastrous Australian floods, after he asked a rescuer to save his little brother, Blake, before himself. Jordan Rice and his mother, Donna, were swept away by floodwaters and drowned before rescuer Warren McErlean could return for them.

Jordan's father, John Tyson, told the Toowoomba Chronicle Jordan could not swim and was terrified of water.

"I can only imagine what was going on inside to give up his life to save his brother, even though he was petrified of water," he said. "He is our little hero."

 Tyson told the paper his longtime partner, Donna Rice, was driving with two of her young sons in tire-level water when her engine stopped. She called for help and the three of them got on the roof of the car as the floodwaters rose quickly. Bystanders were not offering help until McErlean tied a rope around himself and went after them.

A wave of water was coming fast when McErlean reached them with the rope. "Save my brother first," Jordan said, according to McErlean.

Jordan and his mother were swept away, and only 10-year-old Blake survived.

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I am just so moved. If there is heaven & I like to believe that there is, I'm sure Jordan is playing with the Angels right now and still guarding his little brother.... Also, we should also recognize that Warren McErlean is a hero too. But at the same time, this part:"Bystanders were not offering help " is so disappointing & maddening.

As I write this, I remember some lines of Optimus Prime:

Ironhide: Why are we fighting to save the humans? They're a primitive and violent race.

Optimus: Were we so different? They are a young species; they have much to learn... but I've seen goodness in them

and

Optimus: I have witnessed their capacity for courage, and though we are worlds apart, like us, there's more to them than meets the eye.