The 1998 Wales Rally GB was held between 22–24 November 1998 as the final round of the 1998 World Rally Championship season.
Tommi Mäkinen won the 1998 WRC championship despite crashing out in stage 6
Richard Alexander Burns was an English rally driver who won the 2001 World Rally Championship, having previously finished runner-up in the series in 1999 and 2000. He also helped Mitsubishi to the world manufacturers' title in 1998, and Peugeot in 2002. His co-driver in his whole career was Robert Reid. He is the only Englishman to have won the World Rally Championship as a driver.
Richard Burns in 2003, with Peugeot Sport
Burns driving a Subaru Impreza WRC at the 2001 Rally Finland.
Burns at the 2001 Rally Finland.
Burns with a Peugeot 206 WRC at the 2002 Rallye Deutschland