The Tour de Corse is a rally first held in 1956 on the island of Corsica. It was the French round of the World Rally Championship from the inaugural 1973...
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where three spectators were killed and more than 30 injured, and at the Tour de Corse, where Henri Toivonen and his co-driver Sergio Cresto died in a fireball...
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his career—his first, driving a Peugeot 205 Turbo 16 E2, was in the 1986 Tour de Corse, in which Henri Toivonen and his co-driver Sergio Cresto died. His...
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in 1930. Le Tour Guide, France, 2000 GAN Spécial Tour de France, 1994 The Bicycle, UK, 8 July 1943, p6 "La Corse fait-elle peur au Tour de France ? – le...
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participated in the Tour de Corse (2nd in 1987 and 1988 on a Lancia Delta HF 4WD and Integrale Official Martini Racing, 3rd in 1986 on Alfa Romeo GTV6...
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Sergio Cresto (category 1986 deaths)
Lancia employee Attilio Bettega, who died in an accident during the 1985 Tour de Corse on May 2, 1985. His co-driver Maurizio Perissinot survived the crash...
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various forms of motorsport, from Grand Prix motor racing to touring car racing. Alfa Corse was officially formed in the beginning of 1938, after the racing...
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Michèle Mouton (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
went on to win the 1978 Tour de France Automobile and record consistent results in her home events in the WRC; the Tour de Corse and the Monte Carlo Rally...
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1987 and 1988. Auriol won his first World Championship event, the 1988 Tour de Corse, whilst driving a works Ford Sierra RS Cosworth. It was the only time...
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Torra di Campumoru (redirect from Tour de Campomoro)
et de l'énergie, République Française. July 2011. p. 47. Retrieved 27 April 2015. Nivaggioni, Mathieu; Verges, Jean-Marie. "Les Tours Génoises Corses" (in...
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Michel Wyder (category 1986 deaths)
1986 was turning into a dark year for the rallying community, with the deaths of Henri Toivonen and Sergio Cresto earlier that month in the Tour de Corse...
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Jean Todt (category Presidents of the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile)
manufacturers' World Championship titles. In 1986 Henri Toivonen died driving a Lancia Delta S4 during the Tour de Corse rally and the FIA decided to drop the...
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Group B (category Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile)
the death of Henri Toivonen and his co-driver Sergio Cresto in the 1986 Tour de Corse, the FIA banned the group from competing in the WRC from the following...
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Corsair International (redirect from Corse Air International)
1981 as Corse Air International. It was founded by the Corsican Rossi family. In 1990 it was acquired by Nouvelles Frontières, a French tour operator...
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resulted in its demise. Only hours after Henri Toivonen's crash at the 1986 Tour de Corse, FISA president Jean-Marie Balestre announced that Group B cars were...
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Regioni, the 24 Ore de Ypres, and the Tour de France Automobile. They temporarily held the lead in but did not win the Tour de Corse, the Rally Costa Brava...
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Rally for the Kenyan driver and 1974 Press-on-Regardless Rally and 1980 Tour de Corse for the French driver. Loeb holds the record for the most consecutive...
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(1973). Histoire de la Corse. Paris: R. Laffont.. Costa, Laurent-Jacques (2004). Corse préhistorique: peuplement d'une île et modes de vie des sociétés...
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Henri Toivonen (category 1986 deaths)
20 years earlier. 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...
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Renault 5 Turbo (category Cars discontinued in 1986)
178 hp) for the Critérium des Cévennes, 210 PS (154 kW; 207 hp) for the Tour de Corse, and by 1984 as much as 350 PS (257 kW; 345 hp) in the R5 Maxi Turbo...
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Greg LeMond (category American Tour de France stage winners)
Championship. LeMond won the Tour de France in 1986; he is the first non-European professional cyclist to win the men's Tour. LeMond was accidentally shot...
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Stephen Roche (category Tour de France winners)
from Mont Ventoux. He finished his debut season with victories in the Tour de Corse, Circuit d'Indre-et-Loire and Étoile des Espoirs races, with a second...
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collected the final 037 win, and the sole one for the E2 model, on the 1984 Tour De Corse, before it was finally pensioned off in favour of its successor, the...
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had confided to him. "Family tree of Olivier DE GERMAY". "La profession de foi d'Olivier de Germay". Corse Matin (Interview) (in French). Interviewed by...
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Lancia's factory team, for the following season. He finished sixth at the Tour de Corse, and then edged out his team-mate Juha Kankkunen to take his first and...
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Alfa Romeo in motorsport (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
touring car racing and rallies. They have competed both as a constructor and an engine supplier, via works entries (usually under the name Alfa Corse...
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by the fatal crash of Toivonen and co-driver Sergio Cresto on the 1986 Tour de Corse, where the Finnish driver inexplicably missed a tight left-hand hairpin...
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December 4 at the Autodrome de Linas-Montlhéry near Paris, in memory of Henri Toivonen, who died while leading the 1986 Tour de Corse, and to celebrate the...
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Emanuele Naspetti (category World Touring Car Championship drivers)
(1980–1986), participating in more than 200 races and achieving success in Italian and international events. In 1987 he joined the Forti Corse Team to...
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future of Group B cars came under scrutiny. The final blow came at the Tour de Corse later that year with the death of Henri Toivonen. In the first section...
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