{"id":3153,"date":"2013-01-15T12:41:34","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T11:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tyretrade.ie\/?p=3153"},"modified":"2013-01-15T12:41:34","modified_gmt":"2013-01-15T11:41:34","slug":"pirelli-lends-its-support-to-richard-burns-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tyretrade.ie\/index.php\/pirelli-lends-its-support-to-richard-burns-foundation\/3153","title":{"rendered":"Pirelli lends its support to Richard Burns Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">Formerly known as the Pirelli International Rally, the second round of this year\u2019s MSA British Rally Championship has been renamed the Pirelli Richard Burns Foundation Rally in support of the former world rally champion.<!--more--><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Richard Burns Foundation is a charity that was set up to remember the life of Richard Burns who tragically lost his life in 2005 following an astrocytoma: a virulent form of brain tumour.\u00a0After his death, which occurred when Burns was aged just 34, the Richard Burns Foundation was set up by some of his closest friends and colleagues as a lasting tribute to his memory. To this end, it aims to help people who are affected by serious illness or injury.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tyretrade.ie\/index.php\/pirelli-lends-its-support-to-richard-burns-foundation\/3153\/richard-burns-image-2\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3154\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3154\" title=\"Richard-Burns-image-2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tyretrade.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Richard-Burns-image-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tyretrade.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Richard-Burns-image-2.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.tyretrade.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Richard-Burns-image-2-120x80.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.tyretrade.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Richard-Burns-image-2-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pirelli has exclusively supplied the British Rally Championship with tyres since 2007.\u00a0Previously known as the Pirelli International Rally, the newly-named Pirelli Richard Burns Foundation Rally started out as a local club event before becoming a round of the British Rally Championship. Over the years, the rally has attracted a host of world-class drivers, with former winners including world champions Ari Vatanen and Colin McRae.<\/p>\n<p>Pirelli\u2019s Motorsport Director, Paul Hembery, commented: \u201cThe Richard Burns Foundation is currently focusing on raising funds to provide a \u2018Brain Bus\u2019 which will open up to a wider audience the issues and treatment needs for brain and spinal disorder.\u00a0We are delighted to lend our support to this fantastic cause and hope that our support of the Richard Burns Foundation will enable Richard\u2019s name to continue to be visible in the world of rallying.\u00a0We feel it is a fitting tribute to England\u2019s only world rally champion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s Pirelli Richard Burns Foundation Rally will take place on Saturday 4th and Sunday 5th May with the service park once again based at Carlisle racecourse. The rally will also be represented in Carlisle\u2019s city centre, not far from Pirelli\u2019s Carlisle factory that employs in excess of 700 people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Formerly known as the Pirelli International Rally, the second round of this year\u2019s MSA British Rally Championship has been renamed the Pirelli Richard Burns Foundation Rally in support of the former world rally champion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pirelli"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Pirelli lends its support to Richard Burns Foundation - TyreTrade.ie<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tyretrade.ie\/index.php\/pirelli-lends-its-support-to-richard-burns-foundation\/3153\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pirelli lends its support to Richard Burns Foundation - 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