Jackie Stewart describes the day he rolled a Paris Dakar Peugeot 405 T16 at a test session

In 1989 Jackie Stewart tested a Peugeot 405 Turbo 16 in France though the session didn’t quite go according to plan.

Stewart was expecting Ari Vatanen and Jacky Ickx to be in attendance, to advise him how to drive the 4WD, 4WS machine, but neither were present. He was accompanied be a senior engineer who didn’t really give him any feedback on how to control the vehicle.

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Ari Vatanen – Beyond the Limits: A film about a rallying hero in the build up to the Colin McRae Forest Stages Rally

A National Geographic film first broadcast in 2000 telling the story of Ari Vatanen. Also included is a tribute video from the Escort years to his horrific crash in Argentina, and his comeback to conquer the extremeties of the Paris Dakar and Pikes Peak .

In Beyond the Limits Ari describes his thoughts and feelings about rally driving and life in general in his usual philosophical… Continue reading

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