Diagnosed with an astrocytoma in November 2003, Richard Burns lost his chance of winning a second world championship after leading the title race for most of the season. The potential of recording another motorsport statistic paled into insignificance, however, when the magnitude of the medical battle he was now faced with revealed itself.Those with a medical insight didn’t rate his chances, but he took them on – and for two years flew in the face of the fancied opinion. The miracle never came, though, and Richard died on a Friday evening – November 25, 2005.Richard Burns Photo by: Marlboro Peugeot Total Autosport has produced a standalone special magazine to celebrate its 70th birthday. To order your copy of the 196-page Autosport 70th Anniversary issue, please go to: autosport.com/autosport70th 1971-1988 Eight-years old and determined to drive. The best he could manage was reversing the horseboxes around at the Pony Club meetings he had to attend with his sister. He graduated from shunting a Triumph 2000 around the yard to the Under-17s Car Club, where he really learned about car control, handbrake turns and, when meetings were at the Castle Combe circuit in Wiltshire, how to handle a car at over 100mph…. Read full this story
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