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At the 1978 Monte Carlo Rally, two mechanics, Bernard Balmer and Georges Reinier, died when their van collided with a truck near Gap, Hautes-Alpes. [2] On the second day of the 1987 Rallye Côte d'Ivoire , Toyota Team Europe 's Cessna 340 crashed and exploded, killing all four inside; manager and former co-driver Henry Liddon , his assistant ...
On March 22, 1989, Harrison left her home to go to school and waited for the school bus outside her house. As she waited by the mailbox, a blue '84 Monte Carlo pulled up next to her. Inside the vehicle, which was stolen, were Taylor and Nunley. One of the two men exited the vehicle and asked Harrison for directions.
Chevrolet Monte Carlo NASCAR Featherlite Modified Series: Thompson International Speedway: New England Dodge Dealers 150 Race Tried to avoid a crash, was hit by another car, slid and crashed into cement blocks [54] Bobby Ball (USA) 1953-01-03 Midget Unknown Carrell Speedway Race Crashed into the car of Andy Linden and flipped [55]
An anomaly in the schedule was that 1989 was the only year in which the Swedish Rally and the Rallye de Monte Carlo were switched in place, with the Swedish event taking place to start the year. This made it the second and last time that Monte Carlo would not mark the first event of the WRC season until the 2009 season.
On February 4, 1982, a witness named Patty Wilkins saw Valentine Sally entering her family's Monte Carlo Truck Stop with a much older truck driver. Wilkins found it unusual that a teenager was outside at that time of the morning with an older man, so she asked the girl if she felt safe and if she felt like staying at the truck stop.
The 1986 season was notable for being the last World Rally Championship season driven with the popular Group B rally cars, which were banned after the fatal crashes at the Rally Portugal, 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 ...
There is a documentary film about her life, entitled The Life and Crimes of Doris Payne (2013), [18] in which Payne describes in detail many of her crimes, from the earliest thefts in her youth, up to her arrest in 2011, at age 80, for stealing a diamond ring from a Macy's department store.
He also ran the 1969 Monte Carlo Rally in a Porsche 911. Buffum is the only driver in the world to compete in at least one World Rally Championship event in five continuous decades (1960's, 1970's, 1980's, 1990's and 2000).