Monday, November 28, 2005
Former World Rally Champion Richard Burns died at the end of last week, losing his battle with a brain tumor.
More here.
Burns was one of my favourite drivers and I have always loved how he handled the Subarus. He won his 2001 championship title behind the wheel of a Scooby but switched to Peugeot in his later driving years. He was 34. The avatar that I use on MSN is a model of his early Impreza WRC and one of the few that I have ever gone out of my way to search for and purchase.
The sport has truly lost another great driver.
Rest in Peace Mr. Burns. The sport will never be the same without you.
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Never heard of him but obviously he meant a lot to you
Yea - heard about that... that's sad. :-(
Racing can be dangerous... but this is pretty sad - his untimely demise had nothing to do with his career.
Looking forward to Auriol's performance in Jamdown this weekend. Wonder how much of it I will see?
wow! he was so young! i watch rally racing every now and again, but i'm not familiar with the drivers. i hope speedvision will do a retrospective on him.
i'll never forget making the post on wheels, about him not being able to compete in rally GB i think it was. at the time most of us thought he'd just pulled out since he wasn't in contention for the driver's championship anymore. and then we heard about his illness.
burns was always good fodder for a discussion. there was just something about his driving, his personality, something, that used to get everyone in the rally section on WJ going. i'd seriously consider asking hubby if we can change the planned boy's name to 'colin richard'.
what's even sadder is that we may lose marko martin as well. i don't know if you'd remember scratchie but apparently he'd been in the car with burns when he'd fainted before the rally, and marko had to steer the car off the road. and then there was the fatal accident with martin park.
i think we've lost two rallying greats this christmas.
no, make that three. burns, park and although he's still living, martin as well.
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