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    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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    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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    Corsica (redirect from Corsic)
    KOR-sik-ə, Corsican: [ˈkorsiɡa], [ˈkɔrsika], Italian: [ˈkɔrsika]; French: Corse [kɔʁs] ; Ligurian: Còrsega) is an island in the Mediterranean Sea and one...
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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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    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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    again on the asphalt stages of European rallying, when in 1985, Ragnotti claimed the Tour de Corse again with Group B rallying at its zenith; a win that came...
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    started racing in 1976 on an Opel Kadett. He has participated in the Tour de Corse (2nd in 1987 and 1988 on a Lancia Delta HF 4WD and Integrale Official...
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    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 uninjured...
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  • co-driver, mainly for Attilio Bettega. He survived the accident at the 1985 Tour de Corse which claimed the life of Bettega. He died on December 12, 2004, after...
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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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    Tele Loisirs: Patrick Fiori (Les copains d'abord en Corse) : "Je suis fier de mes racines corses et arméniennes" (in French) "Patrick Fiori : Comment...
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    Jean Todt (category Presidents of the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile)
    titles. In 1986 Henri Toivonen died driving a Lancia Delta S4 during the Tour de Corse rally and the FIA decided to drop the Group B class as being too fast...
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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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  • Attilio Bettega (category 1985 deaths)
    second place at the 1984 Rallye Sanremo. In the 1985 season, he entered the Safari Rally and the Tour de Corse. In Corsica, on the fourth stage of the rally...
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  • well as putting Peugeot ahead of Audi. A disaster struck in May at the Tour de Corse. On the 4th stage of the rally, Italian driver Attilio Bettega crashed...
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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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  • 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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  • point Alfa Romeo made him the manager of the factory racing division, Alfa Corse. Alfa Romeo had bought the shares of the Scuderia Ferrari in 1937 and transferred...
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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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  • 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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    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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    Rally in the United States driving a Renault 17 Gordini, and the 1980 Tour de Corse behind the wheel of a Porsche 911 SC. He participated in the Monte Carlo...
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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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    Lancia Delta S4 (category Cars introduced in 1985)
    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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    rally driver, who won the Tour de Corse in 1987, a round of the World Rally Championship. A regular competitor on the Tour de Corse, Béguin scored his first...
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    with tragedy, with deaths of Italian driver Attilio Bettega at the 1985 Tour de Corse in a Lancia 037 and then Finnish championship favourite Toivonen in...
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    final works season in 1985. Indeed, Alén collected the final 037 win, and the sole one for the E2 model, on the 1984 Tour De Corse, before it was finally...
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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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    Group B (category Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile)
    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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  • thousandth of a second. The bonus scoring system was once used at the 1999 Tour de Corse and 1999 Rally Finland. Re-introduced in 2011, the top three crews through...
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