GrB Lancia Delta S4 Rally Corcega '86 Toivonen crash & Death

[classic5chris]

the explosion is dew to nitrous oxide

[TheMikeIta]

RIP Henry , RIP Sergio

[Soleyce]

R.I.P Henri and Sergio the legend of rallye

[MrAlessioalessio]

RIP

[yusukeworks]

合掌。

[dbh1cibai]

He leido que estava granizando en ese momento, y en el video se ve seco (O ESO PARECE)

[carawan12]

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[SCARSAC]

man that sux its fun to see rally crashes but when a driver loses his life thats aweful rally is the best auto races

[DriftingPartyTeam]

Heroe Forever!!

[krlinc]

RIP

[eiccaapocalyptica]

This is 23rd anniversay. I just spent the day in Corsica and we went to where it happened. I have his photographs lining the walls of my house so it is like he is watching me. Rest in peace Uncle Henkka, we all still miss you. I will make sure Airikkala pays for it.

[rafeirador]

grou b great cars. wrc  very slow cars.

[ErnieBallH]

They're dead the same day (may,2nd 1986), same place (Tour de Corse), same car number (nr.4) of Attilio Bettega one year before..Just heroes, that dedicated their lives to races and lost it..

We'll remember you forever! rest in peace..

[PsD14JR]

in The end there is team mates markku alen and ilkka kivimäki whom stop to help.

...But too late. may them rest in piece.

Henri and Sergio.

[henkkaS4]

I think that biasion was first on the spot...

[PsD14JR]

My information for the alen is based the motorsport magazine vm 1/2009. There is 14 pages on Henkka.

It says that first car after henkka were peugeot wich did not stop, then came Alen.

[otuma1]

me parece normal que quitaran el grupo B, demasiada potencia para las pistas

[Nwbidix]

había otras soluciones y por supuesto mucho mejores

[depolle13]

I never saw the Group B monsters in action but when i see this i get sad.

We've lost the worlds best rally driver.

R.I.P Henry and Sergio

You were the best!!!!!

[DjosueD]

Them cars were too fast. Just too fast.

[MikaHakkinen83]

Levätkää rauhassa.

[poitk]

both dye in the car

consume by flames

RIP

[robiracing]

...r i p henri...

[BillysBMW]

ouch!!! so tragic all the dead drivers were having tragic deaths like senna razenberg etc/

rip em all

[Manuelprodigy]

Honour to those two heroes

[Bona89]

RIP Henri :(

[kanervatie]

How the hell did it explode? I think that is not even possible now.

[Gordanovich]

The fuel tank was aluminium, without the self-sealing linings they have nowadays. There was also no underbody skid plate, they were generally only fitted for gravel rallies. As a result, the tank was ruptured by the trees and the spilling fuel ignited.

And this is the worst thing; for better weight distribution the tank was under the driver's seat. Add the fast-burning composite body and they had no chance once it went on fire.

[henkkaS4]

and add that lancia s4 was going on fuel for airplanes...

[atonnion]

i hope this doesnt sound sadtisitc but i hope henri died instantly because i would hate to die within a fire...RIP henri and sergio great competitors

[topski100]

did he escape from the car then went to help his navigator and was overcome by the fire?

[sidewaysforever]

The man you see running to the car is from the next car through the stage. neither of them made it out of the car sadly.

[topski100]

i dunno i didn't see that, but was just told by someone who was servicing another competitor at the time that henry made it out of the car, maybe it's just a tragic rumorthough, and it doesn't matter, he could drive a rally car.

[xavi26691]

the youngest to win a race in wrc

one o the greatest ever indeed

R.I.P

[jtmatero]

actually not in wrc. he raced in b group

[CojakDeDios]

RIP Henry..

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[foodaisy]

RIP Henri... One of the greatest....

[collo1980]

rip henri e sergio

[98966]

toivonen comlained about the car beeing too fast and too hard to hold in a strait line. Group B was banned after this horrible crash.

[antonisbob]

WTF his F*cking car exploded holy _ _ _ _

[Tunnellad]

May you rest in peace Henri Toivonen, long live world Motorsports.

[VukaSt]

R.I.P TOIVONEN

[Zinkkonen]

R.I.P Henri Toivonen

[sultaraco]

holy shit,brutal, that guy had balls.

[wrcwrc2]

RIP

[edobrycks]

RIP

[Baazo1]

Makes me sad :( Rest in peace. Henry Toivonen was from the same town than me. I still remember him "terrorising" our small hometowns streets with terrible speeding when i was kid.

[henkkaS4]

you lucky bastard :)

[cossieconnoisseur]

nothing wrong with having cars as powerfull as that.

Main issue is that the level of safety wall well bellow that it was cos f the speeds invoilved.

If they reintroduced group b it would not be anywhere near as dangerous cos the tracks are safer, less people on the track, and the cars will be much much stronger.

[d1rtb1ike]

why the car was Burning?

[nEMESISODK]

RIP

[MasKi97]

Who was running at there? Biasion, maybe?

[nobutora74]

He was Toivonen. They are the last recorded pictures before his crash.

[saab99racing]

teropoert. Audi and lancia stopped after that accident and the rest did just drive the year out.

[henkkaS4]

actualy, audi stoped after portugal acident

[craigwrc]

great great men. true legends of wrc. " if something goes wrong or one of makes a mistake were dead" the fatal last words. Those Lancia rally cars were packing as much power as a modern day f1 car and could accelerate from 0-60 mph in 3.2 seconds

it was crazy for the fia to ever allow those cars to get so powerfull.

[default1976]

Henri was ill at the time of the accident. He shouldn't have raced. In an interview just before the accident Henri was complaining that Group B cars were too powerful for the rally.

[Target842]

RIP.

[teropoert]

I can't believe that they didn't stop the rally after the accident. It feels horrible to see how the organisers continued the rally just like that.

[figumoru88]

l'unico al mondo nel riuscire a sfruttare le enormi prestazioni della s4 , toivonen 6 un grande!!!

[pedronumetal]

RIP henry

[astures07]

un gran ejemplo a seguir como piloto y una pena su muerte

descansa en paz

[baker19J]

R.I.P toivonen

[miticofilosofo]

scusate ma nn cera nessun video della morte di toivonen??

[sananimals]

D.E.P

[wrcwrc2]

descansa en paz

[manu221171]

toivonen y cresto dos grandes personajes en el mundo de los rallyes que murieron aciendo lo k mas les gusta i desde mallorca deseo k descanseis en paz

[fordrallyesportfan]

Yeah, it was reported that Henri was suffering from the flu during the event but insisted on driving anyway. He was reported as saying that the Delta S4 was too powerful for the Tour de Corse. He was also complaining of the balance of the car. So to help the balance, Lancia removed the skid plates. So when his car went off the road into the brush below, the fuel tanks ruptured and it caught on fire instantly. I agree, a tragic way to lose your life.

[basilio1977]

Henri and Sergio your life for the rallies, the rallies your eternal life

[morgrp]

He dies doing what he loved - Not too shabby in my books - but of course the crew's tragic deaths weren't the only ones - this accident was the beginning of the end for the awesome group B rally cars - such a shame - modern machinery and driver's are way less flamboyant and exciting

[mcqueenthee]

Henri was simply an amazing rally driver. World- class.. What a terrible, terrible way to die. R.I.P

[j4s]

Mothafukka and DarthPhotek are right. Nobody was near the accident, and the first people came only after almost an hour.

But so what's the accident we can see in this video?

[Wargr]

Actually the first people came to the scene just few minutes after the crash..Bruno Saby and his co-driver. He called help with radio and told that there's a big accident and fire and Henri is dead..

[Tero777]

theres in-car camera footage and yoy can see how fast Henri drives. He was sick at the time of the accident and its not possible to control a car like that if youre not in a condition.

[otacon98]

Yeah i saw the video of what was his last interview the day before his fatal crash and he didn't look good at all, he looked dizzy and sort of comatose like.he should have not been driving in the condition he was in at the time.

[littledan92]

Where is the indside car footage??

Cheers Dan.

[SevcaCZ]

1986,onboard camera,wake up man, only few shots were made inside Group B car...

[DarthPhotek]

mothafukka's right. the only footage they got was way afterwards at the crashsite, and all that remained of the Lancia (and the crew?) was just a black, hot smoking shell. R.I.P Henri and Sergio.

[mothafukka]

The crash of Toivonen was never caught on tape.There were no witnesses to the crash.

[Bortron]

It was caught on tape, because this is it. It was filmed by a spectator much further up the stage. Obviously this footage is still not enough to determine what caused the crash, which is what most people refer to when they say there's no footage of the accident. Check Wikipedia, that confirms that this footage is of Henri's accident.

RIP Henri and Sergio.

[Josti88]

Henri Toivonen is still sadly missed. Seeing video (this one) and picture (the corner and road)material of his crash scene, I reckon he cut the corner too much. This caused him to hit the inside of the corner wich simply launched the Lancia into the ravine. This is just my view. Their's never been any confirmation about the real cause of the crash.

R.I.P Henkka, he defenitly deserved more..

[cgd2007]

i remember reading about this...poor dude...those s4's were a handful from what i've heard...0-100km/h on gravel in something like 2.5 seconds...that kind of speed on a rally is just dangerous

[Recce80]

:sigh: :/

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Cbo­L5n5QCr8