The Latest Breaking News from Richard Burns

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…

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

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

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

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).

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.  

“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…

"[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 ...."

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…