Subaru proprietor Jim Harrison has turned dream-maker for one in every of rallying’s largest names from the ’90s.
When Briton Harrison bought an ex-Bruno Thiry Subaru Impreza 555 one in every of his ambitions was to reunite automobile and driver from an iconic Belgian battle. This summer time he’ll just do that as former manufacturing facility World Rally Championship star Thiry climbs aboard the precise automobile he used on the 1997 Ypres Rally in an effort to go one higher and win on a few of Europe’s most well-known lanes.
The previous manufacturing facility Ford WRC driver missed out on a Ypres win 28 years in the past, when countryman Freddy Loix edged him for the rostrum’s prime step by simply seven seconds aboard his manufacturing facility Toyota Celica GT-4.
Thiry will sort out June’s Ypres Historic Rally within the Impreza not too long ago restored and returned to its full late-Nineties glory by BGMsport. Forward of Ypres, Thiry could have the prospect to familiarise himself with the automobile on the Ardenne Rally Competition on Could 1-3.
“Actually,” stated Thiry, “this feels unbelievable. That is the precise automobile I drove to complete second alongside Stéphane Prévot. I haven’t seen this automobile since, however due to the British quantity plate system, we will affirm that that is ‘my’ Ypres Subaru.
“It has been meticulously restored during the last two years. James [Jim Harrison] sandblasted the automobile fully and determined it might be enjoyable to color his mannequin within the colors of the Ypres Rally.
