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He sadly passed away on the 25th November 2005, exactly four years to the day from his greatest triumph. We now know that Burns was battling the effects of the malignant brain tumour that would eventually claim his life.

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He lost consciousness, but miraculously avoided further incident as the car was steered to safety from the passenger seat by fellow WRC driver and friend, Markko MГ¤rtin. It wasnвЂ™t meant to be, as in the build-up to the event Burns suffered a blackout while driving on the M4 motorway towards Cardiff. In 2003, he found his feet with the French manufacturer, and put together a string of podium finishes to give him a shot at the title on the final round, Wales Rally GB.

Rally winner Richard Burns, Subaru Impreza вЂ“ ID: 1012746282, Photographer: Steven Tee/LAT Photographic, Motorsport Images 1999 World Rally Championship Network Q, United Kingdom. Although a quiet, unassuming character, he had an inner confidence and fierce will to win at all costs, and it showed on this day.

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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.ДЇaced 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 GrГ¶nholm. For 2002, despite winning the championship, Burns switched to Peugeot, reportedly having to buy himself out his contract for ВЈ1m.

He won overall in 2001 after a stirring вЂBattle of BritainвЂ™ with Colin McRae through the Welsh forests on their home event. Richard Burns attempts to dig out his stranded, 3 wheeled Peugeot вЂ“ ID: 1012763994, Photographer: Ralph Hardwick/LAT, Motorsport ImagesД«urns switched back to Subaru for 1999, and the next three seasons would go on to define his career вЂ“ 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 crewвЂ™s first WRC rally victory on the 1998 Safari Rally Kenya вЂ“ 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 вЂ“ the seriesвЂ™ youngest-ever winner.ДЇor 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 ChurchillвЂ™s Welsh Forest Rally School in 1986 that really spiked BurnsвЂ™ interest in rallying, and from that point on he was determined to reach the very top of the sport.Д®arly events in an uncompetitive Talbot Sunbeam didnвЂ™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 BurnsвЂ™s love affair with cars stemmed from driving his fatherвЂ™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.Д«ut as sim racers, itвЂ™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 вЂ“ after Colin McRae in 1995 вЂ“ 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 MГ¤kinen, Marcus GrГ¶nholm, Carlos Sainz, Petter Solberg and SГ©bastien Loeb.Д«ritain had never had such rallying talent on the world stage before вЂ“ or since in my opinion вЂ“ so it was a truly exciting time to be a bobble-hatter. Unbelievably, itвЂ™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.

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