Preazione di Carlo Cavicchi. Introduzione di Antonella Clerici.

by Philip Porter with Mark Cole, Ben Edwards, Louise Goodman, Simon Taylor, David Tremayne, Peter Windsor & Ian Wagstaff

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Corleone. La storia dal 1977.

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Storie e racconti dei protagonisti che hanno reso grande la corsa più famosa del mondo

Exploring the career of the most successful rallycross driver ever: Kenneth Hansen.

Toivo is the nickname with which the friends and the team had renamed Henri Toivonen, son of the European champion Pauli and Harri's older brother. Eleven thematic chapters - enriched with 170 color and b/w images, of which many unpublished - reconstruct the life, sports career and death of the Flying Finn who was never a world champion. Who was Henri, the beginnings, the kart, the rallies, the races on the track and his navigators, the world championship chances, his symbolic race and the chronicles of the main battles that conditioned his career. Included the complete statistics of the World and European Rally Championships, as well as the history of all the competitions.

Miki Biasion’s life reads like a novel. He is one of the greatest drivers in the history of rallying and became the only Italian to have won the world rally championship twice, in 1988 and 1989 driving Lancia Deltas. From his early years in an Opel Kadett GTE to victory in the Monte Carlo and Kenya Safari rallies, Miki won 17 world championship events as well as the World Cup Raid Tout Terrain, the punishing African races like the Dakar in 1998 and 1999 driving an Iveco Eurocargo truck. Recollections, anecdotes, behind the scenes happenings are all here in a book written by journalist Beppe Donazzan, which is a succession of exciting and unprecedented pages, in which many little known facts emerge about the life of one of the all time great champions of world rallying.

In the production of this new book, Miki Biasion wanted by his side his loyal navigator Tiziano Siviero - today like yesterday – in order to rewind the tape of memories of those who experienced all sorts of racing and human adventure from the co-drivers’ seat, who reinvigorates a narrative plot that is already lively in itself.

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When rally fans hear the name Toivonen, they immediately think of breathtaking performances and glorious victories. But it is also hard to forget the accident on the 1986 Tour de Corse that took the lives of Henri Toivonen and his co-driver Sergio Cresto and which eventually brought Group B rallying to an end. Henri was one of the most exceptional rally drivers in history. His inspiring performances in the Talbot Sunbeam Lotus, Opel Ascona 400, Porsche 911 SCRS and Lancia Rally 037 are all well-remembered. But it was the Lancia Delta S4 that really showcased Henri’s ability with victories in the RAC and Monte Carlo rallies, the latter twenty years after his father’s own triumph in the Principality. This book tells the fascinating story of the Toivonen family in rallying and racing. It starts with father Pauli’s heroic drives in the 1950s and 1960s, including winning the European Rally title of 1968 at the wheel of a Porsche 911. It moves on to include the first exploits of the next generation on frozen lakes right up to the contrasting careers and fortunes of Henri and brother Harri in motor sport. Author Esa Illoinen immersed himself deeply in the Toivonen family history and spoke to innumerable friends and witnesses of those days. Amongst them were with Pauli’s widow, Ulla, Henri’s widow, Erja, and even Henri’s 95-year old English teacher. The result is an intimate and touching portrait of Finland’s fastest family, wonderfully illustrated by the best images from the inexhaustible McKlein archive.

Sandro Munari, the Italian legend in rallying, has open his archives and memories to tell all about his fascinating career, going back to his first steps into the competitions at the wheel of karts. When he passed to cars, the Lancia Flavia, Fulvia and Stratos were those that allow him to win the Montecarlo Rallye for four times; but also many other international competitions. In 1977 he was awarded the Drivers FIA World Cup. The intriguing biography is richly illustrated by magnificent colour photos, most of them never published before, belonging to Munari personal archive. A must to have book for sport enthusiasts.

Miki Biasion’s life reads like a novel. He is one of the greatest drivers in the history of rallying and became the only Italian to have won the world rally championship twice, in 1988 and 1989 driving Lancia Deltas. From his early years in an Opel Kadett GTE to victory in the Monte Carlo and Kenya Safari rallies, Miki won 17 world championship events as well as the World Cup Raid Tout Terrain, the punishing African races like the Dakar in 1998 and 1999 driving an Iveco Eurocargo truck. Recollections, anecdotes, behind the scenes happenings are all here in a book written by journalist Beppe Donazzan, which is a succession of exciting and unprecedented pages, in which many little known facts emerge about the life of one of the all time great champions of world rallying.