RE: Richard Burns: Time For Tea?
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just found this on youtube...from rallyday 2005
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRy8tZ0ZqOA
his cars ....and Richard being driven around on a parade lap
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRy8tZ0ZqOA
his cars ....and Richard being driven around on a parade lap
Was too young to remember the Group B era which has one of my favorite ever engine noises ever in the Audi Quattro, but I did used to follow rallying in the 90's with Mcrae and Burns and all.
So sad to think it's been nearly 10 years since he passed, and very sobering to think I am only a couple of years short of his age when he died. Loved watching him and Mcrae doing their thing in their rally cars and have played a number of rally games on different platforms, so sad both are no longer with us.
RIP
So sad to think it's been nearly 10 years since he passed, and very sobering to think I am only a couple of years short of his age when he died. Loved watching him and Mcrae doing their thing in their rally cars and have played a number of rally games on different platforms, so sad both are no longer with us.
RIP
firebird350 said:
Still very upsetting that we've lost Richard, Colin and so many other great rally drivers - seemingly way, way before their time.
It's such a cruel irony really. I grew up in the 1970's when rallying was pretty much an ultra safe sport for drivers, co-drivers and spectators alike whereas Formula 1 was the 'death race arena' with top drivers such as Francois Cevert, Ronnie Petersen and many others were being killed year on year faster than safety campaigners such as Jackie Stewart could get things changed for the better.
Until Attilio Bettega died on the Tour of Corsica in 1985 in a Lancia Rally 037 and then Henri Toivonen and Sergio Cresto two years later in a Delta S4 (also in Corsica), I think the worst to happen to a rally driver was Ari Vatanen's 1985 Argentinian crash in the 205 T16 from which, although very badly injured, he mercifully survived.
Prior to that I seem to remember the rare kind of injury typical in rallying was Hannu Mikkola breaking a finger in a whirling steering wheel after going off on a stage of the 1974 Lombard RAC Rally. Roger Clark never suffered an injury at all throughout his entire rallying career according to his autobiography.
Yet so many top rally drivers have died prematurely away from the sport they loved and excelled at. Clark died from a stroke aged 58, Tony Pond from pancreatic cancer aged 56, Pentti Airikkala (that most British of Finns) aged 64. Add to those legends heroes such as Colin McRae, of course, as well as Burnsie and we have in this country a terrible legacy of British rally stars who are no longer with us. It's utterly tragic.
The worst is that Richard and Colin probably still had several years left in their rallying careers whereas, I suppose, the earlier drivers had at least had theirs before they passed away. Even so...
Might I also mention former British rally champion Mark Lovell and his co-driver Roger Freeman as well as Michael 'Beef' Park - all killed competing in the sport they loved.
God, what a litany, eh?
Very interesting post, thanks !It's such a cruel irony really. I grew up in the 1970's when rallying was pretty much an ultra safe sport for drivers, co-drivers and spectators alike whereas Formula 1 was the 'death race arena' with top drivers such as Francois Cevert, Ronnie Petersen and many others were being killed year on year faster than safety campaigners such as Jackie Stewart could get things changed for the better.
Until Attilio Bettega died on the Tour of Corsica in 1985 in a Lancia Rally 037 and then Henri Toivonen and Sergio Cresto two years later in a Delta S4 (also in Corsica), I think the worst to happen to a rally driver was Ari Vatanen's 1985 Argentinian crash in the 205 T16 from which, although very badly injured, he mercifully survived.
Prior to that I seem to remember the rare kind of injury typical in rallying was Hannu Mikkola breaking a finger in a whirling steering wheel after going off on a stage of the 1974 Lombard RAC Rally. Roger Clark never suffered an injury at all throughout his entire rallying career according to his autobiography.
Yet so many top rally drivers have died prematurely away from the sport they loved and excelled at. Clark died from a stroke aged 58, Tony Pond from pancreatic cancer aged 56, Pentti Airikkala (that most British of Finns) aged 64. Add to those legends heroes such as Colin McRae, of course, as well as Burnsie and we have in this country a terrible legacy of British rally stars who are no longer with us. It's utterly tragic.
The worst is that Richard and Colin probably still had several years left in their rallying careers whereas, I suppose, the earlier drivers had at least had theirs before they passed away. Even so...
Might I also mention former British rally champion Mark Lovell and his co-driver Roger Freeman as well as Michael 'Beef' Park - all killed competing in the sport they loved.
God, what a litany, eh?
Still love this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4hkR4YAUCE&sp...
The thing I'll miss was that he was on his way back to Subaru to partner with Solberg.
The thing I'll miss was that he was on his way back to Subaru to partner with Solberg.
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