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His trademark grit and determination shone through however, and nowhere was this more apparent than when they became stuck in a particularly soft patch of sand heading towards service on the Inmarsat Safari Rally.įaced with the impossible task of extricating their stricken Peugeot, Burns and Reid tried everything to release it from the clutches of the unforgiving Kenyan sandpit, the torturous heat and sheer physical effort taking its toll on a despairing Burns, head in hands, showing how much this meant to him. It was a tough first season for the crew, as they struggled to get on terms with teammate Grönholm. For 2002, despite winning the championship, Burns switched to Peugeot, reportedly having to buy himself out his contract for £1m. He won overall in 2001 after a stirring ‘Battle of Britain’ with Colin McRae through the Welsh forests on their home event. Richard Burns attempts to dig out his stranded, 3 wheeled Peugeot – ID: 1012763994, Photographer: Ralph Hardwick/LAT, Motorsport Imagesīurns switched back to Subaru for 1999, and the next three seasons would go on to define his career – finishing no lower than second in the championship. Safari Rally, Nairobi Kenya, July 11-14th. They followed this up by winning their home event the Network Q Rally of Great Britain later that year.
They showed steady progress in their three-year tenure, culminating the crew’s first WRC rally victory on the 1998 Safari Rally Kenya – perhaps the toughest rally on the calendar. After impressing in this and other Group N outings supported by Prodrive, Burns joined the Subaru Rally Team to win the British Rally Championship in 1993 – the series’ youngest-ever winner.įor 1994 he stepped up to World Championship level, and after part seasons in the thundering Group A 555 Subaru Impreza in 19, Burns and long-time co-driver and friend, Robert Reid, switched to Mitsubishi.
But it was after a trip to Jan Churchill’s Welsh Forest Rally School in 1986 that really spiked Burns’ interest in rallying, and from that point on he was determined to reach the very top of the sport.Įarly events in an uncompetitive Talbot Sunbeam didn’t deter the young Burns and by 1990, benefactor David Williams had purchased a Peugeot 205 GTi with which he entered the national 205 GTi Championship. Richard Burns’s love affair with cars stemmed from driving his father’s Triumph 2000 in a field near his house. With it being the 20th anniversary of his WRC title, we felt it was the perfect moment to reflect on the life and career of Richard Burns.īut as sim racers, it’s not just his exploits on closed-roads that are worth discussing, but also the epic rally sim that bore his name, Richard Burns Rally (RBR). As only the second-ever British WRC champion – after Colin McRae in 1995 – Burns matched devastating speed with sure-footed consistency to amass a total of 10 wins and 34 podiums in the top-tier of rallying, in a period where McRae and Burns battled it out at the front of a field that included rally legends like Tommi Mäkinen, Marcus Grönholm, Carlos Sainz, Petter Solberg and Sébastien Loeb.īritain had never had such rallying talent on the world stage before – or since in my opinion – so it was a truly exciting time to be a bobble-hatter.
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Unbelievably, it’s 20 years to the day since English rally driver Richard Burns won the 2001 World Rally Championship (WRC) at the wheel of his iconic Subaru Impreza.