Peugeot 205 Turbo 16 Evo 2

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Made its competitive debut as part of a three-car car team at round eleven of the 1986 World Rally Championship, Rallye Sanremo, which comprised 488km of mixed gravel and tarmac special stages between October 13th and 17th.
Allocated to Timo Salonen / Seppo Harjanne but retired on stage eight when Salonen crashed trying to overtake Markku Alen’s Lancia Delta S4. More seriously, the rally was marred by the death of event leader Henri Toivonen and his navigator, Sergio Cresto, when their S4 went off the side of a hill and was consumed by an intense fire.
Final outing came at the RAC Rally which took place on 517km of gravel special stages between November 16th and 19th. Peugeot entered a trio of 450bhp cars in Sanremo gravel trim, albeit with revised exhaust systems to cope with strict British noise legislation.
Entered for Mikael Sundstrom and Voitto Silander who had been driving for Peugeot Talbot Sport UK in a domestic campaign with an Evolution 1. They had a steady run to fourth overall while Salonen won the event for Peugeot, Alen bagged second for Lancia and fellow T16 pilot Juha Kankkunen placed third despite having put his car’s nose into a ditch and rolled.