Harri Toivonen

Harri Toivonen

Nation:	Finland
World Rally Championship (WRC)
First rally:	Rally Finland 1980
Last rally:	Rally Finland 1988
Co-driver:	Arto Juselius Juha Paajanen John Daniels Cedric Wrede Neil Wilson
Team:	David Sutton Cars Ltd Mitsubishi Ralliart Austin Rover WRT
Vehicle:	Chrysler Avenger Talbot Sunbeam Lotus Ford Escort RS 1800 MKII Mitsubishi Lancer Turbo MG Metro 6R4 Mazda 323 4WD Lancia Delta Integrale
Rallies Victories Podiums WP 10 - - -
Points:	3
As of November 8, 2014

Harri Juha Toivonen (born October 22, 1960 in Helsinki ) is a former Finnish racing driver .

family

Harri Toivonen is the son of Pauli Toivonen , a well-known rally driver from the 1960s, who won the Monte Carlo Rally in 1966 and the European Rally Championship in 1968 . His older brother Henri was also a rally driver and was one of the most successful drivers of the Group B era as a Lancia factory driver in the mid-1980s . He had a fatal accident in a Lancia Delta S4 at the Corsica Rally in 1986 .

Career

Like father and brother, Harri Toivonen also competed in rallies first. After starting in the Finnish rally championship, the first world rally championship round in which he participated was the 1000 Lakes Rally in 1980 . In 1986 he achieved his best result in an international rally with eighth place in an MG Metro 6R4 at the 1000 Lakes Rally.

In 1988 he switched to the circuit and continued to drive touring and sports car races . In 1990 Franz Konrad signed him for his Konrad Motorsport racing team . In 1990 and 1991 he competed for Konrad and Kremer Racing in the races of the World Sports Car Championship . His best place in these two years was third overall with Manuel Reuter in a Porsche 962 in the Suzuka 430 km race in 1991 . In 1992 he was part of the BRM team that tried in vain all year round to get the P351 up and running.

Toivonen competed in sports car races until the early 2000s and retired from active racing after the Daytona 24-hour race in 2002 .

statistics

Individual results WRC

year	team	automobile	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	rank	Points
1980	Harri Toivonen	Chrysler Avenger	MON	SWE	POR	KEN	GRC	ARG	FIN DNF	NZL	ITA	FRA	GBR	CIV		-	0
1981	Harri Toivonen	Talbot Sunbeam Lotus	MON	SWE	POR	KEN	FRA	GRC	ARG	BRA	FIN DNF	ITA	CIV	GBR		-	0
1982	David Sutton Cars Ltd.	Ford Escort RS 1800	MON	SWE	POR	KEN	FRA	GRC	NZL	BRA	FIN DNF	ITA	CIV	GBR		-	0
1983	Harri Toivonen	Mitsubishi Lancer Turbo	MON	SWE	POR	KEN	FRA	GRC	NZL	ARG	FIN DNF	ITA	CIV			-	0
	Mitsubishi Ralliart													GBR DNF
1986	Austin Rover WRT	MG Metro 6R4	MON	SWE	POR	KEN	FRA	GRC	NZL	ARG	FIN 8	CIV	ITA	GBR DNF	United States	49	3
1987	Harri Toivonen	Mazda 323 4WD	MON	SWE DNF	POR	KEN	FRA	GRC	United States	NZL	ARG	FIN DNF	CIV	ITA	GBR	-	0
1988	Harri Toivonen	Lancia Delta Integrale	MON	SWE	POR	KEN	FRA	GRC	United States	NZL	ARG	FIN DNF	CIV	ITA	GBR	-	0

Legend
colour	abbreviation	meaning
gold	-	victory
silver	-	2nd place
bronze	-	3rd place
green	-	Placement in the points
blue	-	Classified outside the point ranks
violet	DNF	Race not finished (did not finish)
	NC	not classified
red	DNQ	did not qualify
	DNPQ	failed in pre-qualification (did not pre-qualify)
black	DSQ	disqualified
White	DNS	not at the start (did not start)
	WD	withdrawn
Light Blue	PO	only participated in the training (practiced only)
	TD	Friday test driver
without	DNP	did not participate in the training (did not practice)
	INJ	injured or sick
	EX	excluded
	DNA	did not arrive
	C.	Race canceled
		no participation in the World Cup
other	P / bold	Pole position
	SR / italic	Fastest race lap
	*	not at the finish, but counted due to the distance covered
	()	Streak results
	underlined	Leader in the overall standings

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1991	Porsche Kremer Racing	Porsche 962 CK6	JJ Lehto	Manuel Reuter	Rank 9
1992	British Racing Motors	BRM P351	Wayne Taylor	Richard Jones	failure	Gearbox damage
1996	Kremer Racing	Kremer K8 Spyder	Christophe Bouchut	Jürgen Lässig	failure	accident
1997	Pacific Racing Ltd.	BRM P301	Eliseo Salazar	Jesús Pareja	failure	Engine failure
2001	Team Ascari	Ascari A410	Werner Lupberger	Ben Collins	failure	fuel pump

literature

• Christian Moity, Jean-Marc Teissèdre, Alain Bienvenu: 24 heures du Mans, 1923–1992. 2 volumes. Éditions d'Art, Besançon 1992, ISBN 2-909-413-06-3 .

Web links

Commons : Harri Toivonen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Harri Toivonen at Racing Sports Cars

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Harri Toivonen
2. ↑ 430 km Suzuka race in 1991