It was with this very Impreza S6 that the late Richard Burns competed in the Tour de Corse, Rallye Sanremo, and Network Q Rally of Great Britain during the 2000 WRC season. Though his chances of winning the overall title were lost with a crash in Finland earlier that year, he was still determined to put in a mega performance at his home event, and won the Network Q Rally overall.
The car immediately went into a collection after its win, the owner choosing to preserve the car s original race-battered state rather than have it restored. There s visible damage to the side skirts, missing wing mirrors, and a handful of other imperfections to show this is no garage queen.
22 January 2021 In the late 1960s, Portuguese racing driver Heitor de Moraes took his Renault 8 Gordini from Corsica to Poland, rallying all across Europe. Now, the ocean blue car has found a new owner and a new sportive duty – carrying surfboards in style from Lisbon to the Algarve.
The year was 1968: six years before the so-called ‘Carnation Revolution’. Life in Portugal at that time could be tough. Not for Heitor de Moraes, though: this was the year he became the first owner of a pretty special blue car. Fast-forward to 2020, and another chapter of the car’s history was written, with its third owner also driving it along the curving roads of southern Portugal. Only this time, with surfboards on the roof.