- 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 crash, it wouldn't have mattered: The Lancia burst into flames almost immediately and rapidly burned to the ground.www.autoweek.com/car-life/a1696806/throttle-back-thursday-tragedy-ended-gro…
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WEB19 May 2013 · But how and why the Lancia Delta S4 left the road remains one of motorsport’s mysteries.
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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 after his 24th birthday. He had the record of being the youngest driver ever to win a world rallyWikipedia · Text under CC-BY-SA licence- Estimated Reading Time: 8 mins
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WEB26 Mar 2009 · Toivonen, driving a Lancia Delta S4, died on May 2, 1986, while leading the event. His American co-driver, Sergio Cresto, also died when the Lancia plunged down a ravine and exploded. The fatal accident had no close witnesses and the remains of the car were merely blackened spaceframe, making it impossible to determine the cause of the …
WEBHe inherited the lead when the Lancia Delta S4 of Henri Toivonen and Sergio Cresto crashed on the second day, killing both men.
WEB3 May 2018 · 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...
WEB8 Jul 2019 · A restored Lancia Delta S4 straight out of the Group B rally archives lost control and ended up crashing at the 2019 Goodwood: FoS.
WEB2 Aug 2016 · 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...
WEB6 Jul 2019 · A restored Lancia Delta S4 straight out of the Group B rally archives lost control and ended up crashing at the 2019 Goodwood: FoS.
WEB4 Feb 2020 · The crash that killed Henri Toivonen and his co-driver Sergio Cresto in the 1986 Tour de Corse when they missed a corner in their Lancia Delta S4 is often pointed to as the moment the FIA chose to end …
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