![]() ![]() If you try to hop straight out onto the stages, you’ll quickly find yourself in a nearby tree or have a marshal scrambling from the stage in sheer fright. It provides invaluable help in driving this ‘accurate simulation’. For anyone wanting to get into the game, doing the Rally School is an absolute must. All the way from generating oversteer in the car, to performing a neat little Scandinavian Flick, it covers it all. The depth of the Rally School amazed me, many lessons teaching you the fundamentals of driving a rally car. And the fact that I could barely drive in a straight line was actually, despite the obvious annoying nature of the situation, quite refreshing to know. First feelings? Well, to be perfectly honest, I was so exciting I forgot to note them. Burns welcoming me to the Rally School and telling me to familiarize myself with the car and its handling by driving around, what I would call, a skid pan. I’m greeted by a friendly message from Mr. Backing up back to the Main Menu (which is amazing -natch), I searched down the list until I found ‘Rally School’ and pressed Enter. I decided to follow its advice, and head on over to the Rally School. What greeted me next was unexpected, but very pleasing, a warning message that said something along the lines of: “This is an accurate simulation, Richard recommends that you complete the Rally School before proceeding.” What joy! Even a warning to let me know how real this is supposed to be. So I installed and fired up the game, wait, no, SIMULATION, for the first time and headed straight for ‘Quick Rally’ mode – the logical option for wanting to get in-game straight away. Reviewer Machine: 2.73GHz P4, 1gb DDR PC3200 RAM, ATI Radeon 9600 XT AGP 8x DX9 128mb, SoundBlaster Digital Audio Card with EAX, Logitech Wingman. His faith in was rewarded as he went on to win the Championship.Richard Burns Rally Review Article by James Burgess posted Sep 9, 2004 ![]() When Burns came second in the event (the winner was not entered into the series championship), Williams chose to run him for the remainder of the series. He finished second, and the car's current driver and his friend David Williams decided that Burns should drive the car instead for the remainder of the series, with which Burns won the championship. Burns won the championship and was asked to drive a well-financed Group N Subaru Legacy in the Mintex National series. Two hours later he emerged stating that he wanted to be a rally driver.īy 1989, Richard had been successful in minor motorsport events and entered a Peugeot 205 into the 1990 national 205GTI challenge. Burns's early recollections of driving was when his father Alex allowed him to get behind the wheel of a Triumph 2000 in a field.Īt 11 he joined an under 17's car club which fuelled his interest, and at 15, Alex decided to take him to a Welsh rally driving school where was assessed. ![]()
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