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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.
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