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September 2017 torsport. The ST205 Celica GT-Four is perhaps the most famous of all as the team was banned in 1996 from the World Rally Championship after being caught cheating with the restrictor which limited power to the regulation 300hp. where it was driven by no less than seven former World Rally Champions, including Walter Rohl, Hannu Mikkola, Stig Blomqvist, and Colin McRae. The event was won by Carlos Sainz driving this very car. After, it was placed into a collection in Denmark where it re- mained for 10 years before being sold to another collector in Belgium. This actual car was used by Belgian, Freddy Loix to win several rounds of the European Rally Championship in 1996 and by German, Isolde Holderied on the 1997 Monte Carlo Rallye where she fin- ished 8 th . It was then driven by Matthias Kahle to win the German Rally Champi- onship before it's final event at the Race of Champions on the Canary Islands Stuart purchased the car in 2015 and shipped it back to Australia where he uses it infrequently in local tarmac events. 31