Tags: Motorsport Season.
The 2001 World Rally Championship season was the 29th season of the FIA World Rally Championship (WRC). In a tightly contested year Subaru’s Richard Burns took his first and only drivers’ world title beating Ford’s Colin McRae Mitsubishi’s Tommi Mäkinen and the defending champion Marcus Grönholm of Peugeot. Peugeot successfully defended their manufacturers’ title.