Lars-Erik Torph
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| Nationality | Swedish Rally |
Lars-Erik Torph (11 January 1961 – 23 January 1989) was a
Delta Integrale
and crashed into them.
Career
Torph debuted in the World Rally Championship during the
Volkswagen Golf GTI for the Swedish Junior Team.[1]
In the
Toyota Team Europe, Toyota's factory WRC team. He took his Toyota Celica TCT to second place at the endurance events Safari Rally and Rallye Côte d'Ivoire, losing the wins to compatriot and teammate Björn Waldegård. At the Olympus Rally, Torph finished fourth, but this time ahead of Waldegård who took fifth place.[2]
Points from these events placed Torph sixth in drivers' world championship.
In
Audi Sport's Hannu Mikkola and Walter Röhrl, despite a fever that lasted almost the duration of the event.[3] At the Olympus Rally, he retired due to an engine problem.[4] On the second day of the Rallye Côte d'Ivoire, Toyota's Cessna 340 aircraft crashed down and exploded, killing manager Henry Liddon, his assistant Nigel Harris, the pilot and the navigator. Toyota boss Ove Andersson withdrew all the factory Supra Turbos from the event.[5]
During the
1989 season opener in Sweden, but retired after an ignition problem.[8]
Death
At the 1989
Lancia Delta Integrale, and then regained it only to go off the road and down an embankment on the other side. At about 145 km/h (90 mph), the car crashed into Torph and Rehnfeldt, killing both. Fiorio and his co-driver Luigi Pirollo were unhurt.[9] Witnesses said that hitting a bump had caused Fiorio to lose control of his car.[10] Skoghag withdrew from the event, and Lancia's factory team Martini Lancia locked out the podium with drivers Miki Biasion 1st, Didier Auriol 2nd and Bruno Saby 3rd.[11]
References
- ^ a b "Lars-Erik Torph". RallyBase. Retrieved 2008-09-11.
- ^ "21st Olympus Rally". RallyBase. Retrieved 2008-09-18.
- ^ Sturmey, Henry; H. Walter Staner (1987). The Autocar: A Journal Published in the Interests of the Mechanically Propelled Road Carriage. Iliffe, sons & Sturmey ltd. p. 17.
- ^ "22nd Olympus Rally". RallyBase. Retrieved 2008-09-18.
- ^ "Henry Liddon". Motorsport Memorial. Retrieved 2008-09-11.
- ^ "38th International Swedish Rally". RallyBase. Retrieved 2008-09-11.
- ^ "36th Marlboro Safari Rally". RallyBase. Retrieved 2008-09-11.
- ^ "39th International Swedish Rally". RallyBase. Retrieved 2008-09-11.
- ^ Holmes, Martin (January 26, 1989). "Report on the accident". Autosport: 16.
- ^ "2 killed in Monte Carlo Rally". Chicago Sun-Times: 87. January 24, 1989.
- ^ "57ème Rallye Automobile de Monte-Carlo". RallyBase. Retrieved 2008-09-11.