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How the much-missed Richard Burns scaled the WRC mountain

On this day 20 years ago, Richard Burns sadly passed away due to cancer, exactly four years after claiming the 2001 World Rally crown. In an article originally published in Autosport magazine on 1 December 2005, David Evans recounts his incredible career along with tributes from those who knew him…

Motorsport

Remembering Richard Burns, 20 years on from his death

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On this day in 1995, Colin McRae became the UK’s first world rally champion

Three decades ago Colin McRae made history by securing the World Rally Championship title in a spectacular RAC Rally victory. Here’s how the impact of McRae and his 1995 title is still felt today

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30 years on: When McRae became Britain’s first world rally champion

Three decades ago Colin McRae made history by securing the World Rally Championship title in a spectacular RAC Rally victory. Here’s how the impact of McRae and his 1995 title is still felt today

Autosport

How Evans followed in the footsteps of WRC Safari masters McRae and Burns

Elfyn Evans is now a member of an exclusive club of three, joining Colin McRae and Richard Burns as British winners of the World Rally Championship’s toughest event - Safari Rally Kenya.

Autosport

How Vermont (and Travis Pastrana) Saved The Legacy of Japan’s Greatest Rally Team: Part 2

In 2000, at the age of 16, Travis Pastrana was already one of the most accomplished motorcyclists on Earth. He won the World Freestyle Motocross Championship in 1997 at the age of just 14, and would continue winning that championship every year through 2003. He’d won freestyle motocross gold at…

Motor1

Here's Your Chance to Own a Real Prodrive-Built Subaru Rally Car

Subaru's Group A rally cars of the 1990s and 2000s are things of legend. The likes of Colin McRae and Richard Burns used these cars to put Subaru on the map in Europe, cementing the brand as a loose-surface icon in the process. Only a handful of these Prodrive-built Imprezas exist,…

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Watch The Most-Talented British Rally Driver of All Time Win At Home

Nope, it's not Colin McRae; In the final round of the 2000 WRC championship, Richard Burns took the win but lost the title.

Motor1

Letter: John Burnside obituary

Anthony Rudolf writes: For this beautiful early sequence of poems, Burnside used the name John-Paul Dick

The Guardian - UK

FIA president reveals Subaru WRC comeback talks

The three-time constructors’ champion became synonymous with the WRC in the 1990s and 2000s winning drivers’ titles with Colin McRae (1995), Richard Burns (2001) and Petter Solberg (2003).

Autosport

WRC at 50: Ranking the world championship's 20 greatest moments

Since it launched in 1973, the WRC has created a myriad of memorable moments from emotional victories and defeats, historic game changing achievements, to feats that simply defy belief.

Autosport

How a breakthrough Safari win established a future WRC champion

“Richard Burns crossed the final flying finish line, punched the air and shouted something so obscene that the BBC won’t be able to show the moment!” That was how Autosport’s rally reporter Keith Oswin described Burns’ first win of what would become a glittering but unfortunately short World Rally Championship…

Autosport

Loading and Openly Carrying Gun in Own Yard Isn't Criminal Use of Deadly Force Under Florida Law

"[O]ne [tree-cutting] crew member made sexually suggestive gestures towards his fiancée and another waved a running chainsaw towards his dogs with the apparent threat to dismember them ...."

Reason

The WRC three-peat that crowned McRae the Acropolis master

The World Rally Championship is gearing up to tackle the Acropolis Rally this weekend, where Kalle Rovanpera could steal Colin McRae’s record as its youngest ever world champion. Toyota's starlet won the event last year, but he'll have to go some way to match the prowess of McRae on the…

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WRC Safari Rally: Everything you need to know

The World Rally Championship heads to Africa as Safari Rally Kenya hosts Round 6 of the 2022 season this weekend. Here's everything you need to know.

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