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Eleven thematic chapters - enriched with 170 color and b/w images, of which many unpublished - reconstruct the life, sports career and death of the Flying Finn who was never a world champion.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.
After Formula 1 and, perhaps, the old World Championship of Makes, the world rally championship has always been the one that has attracted the interest of enthusiasts and the public alike, both for its technical and competitive aspects as well as its human side. Mini Cooper and the Porsche 911 first, then Alpine Renault and Lancia (from the Fulvia to the Stratos, the 037, the Delta ‘monster’ and the S4 to the 4WD), but also the Opel Ascona, Fiat 131, Renault 5, Audi Quattro and Peugeot 205 right up to the ‘modern’ Toyotas, Subarus, Fords and Citroëns. They are all protagonists in this enthralling story, legendary cars driven by legendary drivers, among them Sandro Munari, Walter Röhrl, Markku Alén, Miki Biasion, Didier Auriol, Stig Blomqvist, Juha Kankkunen, Colin McRae and Sébastien Loeb.
Appeared for the first time in 2010 and now updated until 2016, this reference book - written by the authoritative author Sergio Remondino and illustrated with hundreds of pictures by Reihnard Klein - covers this extraordinary story year-by-year.