Was the Tour of Corsica too soft?
Some in the World Rally Championship felt the modern crews had it too easy on Corsica's return. DAVID EVANS evaluates how the 2015 edition of what was once an unforgiving rally shaped up
Corsica. What was all the fuss about? They went out. They came home.
In the mid-'80s, Corsica's reputation was the rallying equivalent of the Nordschleife - it was a killer.
For three years in succession, death marred the World Rally Championship's trip to the French Island: Attilio Bettega in 1985, his Lancia team-mates Henri Toivonen and Sergio Cresto a year later, and a private Peugeot crew in 1987.
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