Top Gear Magazine Subscription - 5 issues for £5. 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. Henri Pauli Toivonen (25 August 1956 - 2 May 1986) was a Finnish rally driver born in Jyväskylä, the home of Rally Finland.His father, Pauli, was the 1968 European Rally Champion for Porsche and his brother, Harri, became a professional circuit racer. Toivonen's first World Rally Championship victory came with a Talbot Sunbeam Lotus at the 1980 Lombard RAC Rally in Great Britain, just.
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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. Henri Toivonen fatal crash at Tour de Corse 1986 - original crash video and stabilized video 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.
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The rally was ultimately won by Bruno Saby in a Peugeot 205 turbo—a bittersweet victory if there ever was one.. The exact cause of Toivonen's crash remains a mystery decades after it. Published Apr 3, 2019, 2:22 AM. But Group B's time was effectively ended when Henri Toivonen and co-driver Sergio Cresto were killed in a crash on the Tour of Corsica in 1986. As the WRC field. Published May 25, 1986, 4:00 PM. 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. WRC Videos. 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 effectively signaled the end of rallying's spectacular but frighteningly dangerous Group B era. As well as paying their respects, they outline why there is still to this day so much mystery.
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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. Much has been made of the 1986 Tour de Corse in recent days. Here at DirtFish we debated the moment the World Rally Championship changed forever in the wake of the deaths of Henri Toivonen and Sergio Cresto on May 2. We've considered the crash itself, the move from Group B to the more production-based Group A and the ramifications for all of.
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. Previously on this channel, we've already discussed arguably the largest crash of the Group B,which was in 1986, in Portugal.In the immediate aftermath of th.
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Toivonen, who died in a crash later that year, will forever remain one of the WRC's all-time greats when it comes to flair, bravery and outright speed.. "A few weeks before the rally, on. The death of Henri Toivonen. says. he 1986 Tour de Corse, a world rally on narrow and very twisty mountain roads around the island of Corsica, began on Thursday, 1 May. Toivonen had a sore throat.
