England's only World Rally Champion, Richard Burns, succumbed to a brain tumour on this day in 2005. In remembrance of the rallying legend, Anthony Peacock recounts his to-the-wire 2001 title fight and the team's turmoil behind the scenes in today's Great Read
Twenty years after the event, all that's left is a sentimental blue and yellow kaleidoscope of memories: a vertiginous rush of details made all the more poignant by the fact that England's first world rally champion is no longer with us.
Richard Burns won his title on the Rally of Great Britain in 2001 after an intense battle with Colin McRae, who himself became champion six years earlier. That set up a rivalry as complex as that of their disparate characters, but while their duel served to light up public awareness of the sport (thanks to tub-thumping headlines such as Battle of Britain!), it told nothing of the real story of what happened on November 25, when Richard achieved his lifelong ambition...
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