![]() Upon winning that series, Richard's prize was a chance to drive a World Rally Championship event in Great Britain that same year. In 1990 he joined the Peugeot Challenge after David Williams bought Burns a Peugeot 205 GTI. ![]() To this end he rallied the stages of Panaround, Bagshot, Mid-Wales, Millbrook, Severn Valley, Kayel Graphics, and the Cambrian Rally as these were all rallies which included stages used on more prestigious events. In 1988 he entered his first rallies in his own Talbot Sunbeam, but the car was too basic and slow to make much of an impression, so in 1989 he borrowed other competitors' machines to progress. Richard badgered his father into letting him join the Craven Motor Club, in his home town of Reading, where his talent was quickly spotted by David Williams, a rally enthusiast who would play a major role in Burns' early career. Just two years later his father arranged a trip to Jan Churchill's Welsh Forest Rally School near Newtown, Powys where Burns drove a Ford Escort for the day, and from that moment on he knew what he wanted to do. ![]() At eleven Burns joined the Under 17 Car Club, where he became driver of the year in 1984. At the age of eight he first started driving his father's old Triumph 2000 in a field near their house. ![]()
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