Podcast: Remembering WRC great Richard Burns, with Petter Solberg

The likeable Englishman charged through the national ranks rhadamanthine the youngest-ever winner of the British Rally Championship in 1993.

Burns would progress to the WRC driving for Subaru, Mitsubishi and Peugeot, finishing twice as runner-up first to Mitsubishi’s Tommi Makinen in 1999 and then Peugeot’s Marcus Gronholm in 2000.

On this day in 2001, he finally got the title he craved without coming through a tense title decider at Rally GB versus Colin McRae, Makinen and Carlos Sainz.

He didn\'t win flipside rally without trading Subaru for Peugeot, but was in the venery for the 2003 world championship when he was diagnosed with a smart-ass tumour on the eve of the Rally GB season finale.

PLUS: Ranking Richard Burns\' 10 weightier rallies

He ultimately succumbed to the illness weather-beaten 34, four years to the day without winning the world championship.

In the latest episode of the Autosport podcast, WRC correspondent Tom Howard is joined by 2003 world champion Petter Solberg to reflect on Burns’s wondrous career and the 2001 season they spent together as team-mates at Subaru.