Richard Burns’ Subaru Impreza #3 WRC car sells for $865,000

The Subaru Impreza campaigned by Richard Burns and Robert Reid in the 2000 Entire world Rally Championship bought for a lot more than $865,000 last week, starting to be the latest high-profile Subaru to deliver in big dollars on a collector car auction web-site. 

“Chassis No. eleven was obtained straight from the end line of the 2000 Network Q Rally GB right after staying driven to outright victory by the late, excellent Richard Burns, thus preserving its originality,” the listing on Accumulating Automobiles states. “It has been in the recent private assortment for virtually 3 yrs, mechanically recommissioned, and has been utilised for a quantity of demonstration gatherings to show off its amazing functionality and patina.”

There ended up few other information included in the listing, but chassis No. 11’s racing pedigree is properly-documented. Homologation cars and trucks like this just one used engines that ended up pretty shut to showroom spec, and the class laws for 2000 authorized the WRX to develop a relatively mild three hundred horsepower. Burns’ 2000 period was hamstrung by an accident at Rally Finland that in the end took him out of championship contention, but the car by itself was a lot more than competitive. 

This is not the first high-profile Subaru auction to fetch a healthful six-determine sum in 2021. A 1998 22b STI bought for a lot more than $310,000 on Provide a Trailer in April.

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