On 2 May 1986, Henri Toivonen, his co-driver Sergio Cresto, and Group B rally cars died on this corner. To look it at it out of context, it's a treacherous left-hander with a drop so vast the. Toivonen died in a crash on 2 May 1986 while leading the Tour de Corse rally in Corsica. His American co-driver, Sergio Cresto, also died when their Lancia Delta S4 plunged down a ravine and exploded. The crash had no close witnesses and the only remains of the car were the blackened spaceframe, making it impossible to determine the cause.
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Henri Toivonen's crash at the 1986 Tour de Corse was the end of rally's brutally fast Group B era, the Attitude Era of rallying.With rallies being long, and. As the World Rally Championship headed to Corsica for its 2019 event, David Evans and Colin Clark visited the corner where Henri Toivonen and co-driver Sergi. 26th March 2009, 10:48am by YouTube unearths some amazing video footage, and there’s perhaps none more chilling than this video of Finnish rally star, Henri Toivonen, crashing to his death in the 1986 Tour de Corse Rally. Toivonen, driving a Lancia Delta S4, died on May 2, 1986, while leading the event. Henri Toivonen fatal crash at Tour de Corse 1986 - original crash video and stabilized video
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On May 2, 1986, during the second leg of the Tour de Corse, Henri Toivonen and Sergio Cresto's Lancia Delta S4 careened off the course and into a ravine. Even if the pair had survived the initial. Group B was the World Rally Championship's most famous era and produced the most spectacular cars. David Evans and Colin Clark visited the scene of Toivonen's crash and explained why there are. Toivonen's crash was so severe that the car exploded and was consumed by an intense fire, though officials stated later that both Toivonen and his American co-driver Cresto were believed to. As the World Rally Championship headed to Corsica for its 2019 event, David Evans and Colin Clark visited the corner where Henri Toivonen and co-driver Sergio Cresto were killed in a crash that.
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Twelve months after the deaths of Henri Toivonen and Sergio Cresta, the WRC's return to Corsica was another bleak weekend May '20 09 Photography by Prodrive Words by David Evans, DirtFish Head of Media Tweet Share Much has been made of the 1986 Tour de Corse in recent days. Henri Toivonen was the son of 1968 ERC Champion Pauli Toivonen. Toivonen was born on August 25th 1956 in Jyväskylä Finland. Toivonen competed in both Rally and Circuit racing. His brother Harri became a professional Circuit Racer who also did rally. Harri retired from circuit racing in 2002.
The day after the Tour de Corse crash, which claimed the lives of Henri Toivonen and Sergio Cresto, Balestre announced the end of Group B. Pretty much there and then, Audi withdrew from rallying. Group B's Mysterious Final Crash - Henri Toivonen blags 7.79K subscribers Subscribe 1.4K 100K views 3 weeks ago Previously on this channel, we've already discussed arguably the largest crash.
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The rumour has it that in 1986, 'man of the moment' Henri Toivonen lapped the Estoril Formula One circuit so fast in his Lancia Delta S4 rally car that his time would have put him sixth on the. Toivonen had a sore throat and was suffering from the flu, but he insisted on driving after having lost his championship lead during the last three rallies due to retiring the car in Sweden, the.
