Juha Kankkunen by then lost the title to Mäkinen. Kankkunen stayed with Ford for the 1998 season with Belgian driver Bruno Thiry as his new teammate, after Sainz had opted to re-join Toyota. Ford was already moving resources into developing the new Ford Focus WRC and the team's last year with the Escort WRC was winless. Kankkunen drove the car on the podium on seven occasions, and both Ford and Kankkunen finished fourth in their respective championships. For the 1999 season, Ford signed the Subaru World Rally Team star Colin McRae and Kankkunen moved to replace him at Subaru. Kankkunen's first year
WRC 3 event despite withdrawing from the championship in real life towards the end of the season. All 14 rallies from the official 2003 WRC calendar appear on the game. The game received "mixed" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. In Japan, "Famitsu" gave it a score of one eight, one nine, one seven, and one eight for a total of 32 out of 40. In the UK, "Official UK PlayStation 2 Magazine" said that the game challenged Colin McRae, and listed it in their top 100 games. WRC 3 WRC 3 is a racing video game developed by Evolution