Rallye Monte Carlo 1986: Henri Toivonen wins despite being crashed into by a spectator car on a road section

 

Henri Toivonen won the 1986 Monte Carlo Rally to record a historic victory exactly twenty years on from his father’s Monte success, but it nearly didn’t turn out to like that at all. Toivonen suffered an accident when an oncoming spectator car crashed into him on a road section just after he had completed the Burzet test.

Toivonen suffered a hip injury and he would be in pain the rest of the rally… Continue reading

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