Can we please stop hotlinking pics?

This is not as you may think a morbid gruesome shot of Bettega's fatal Corsica crash in 85, it's actually a crash he had and survived on the Tour de Corse in 82, again in an 037 Group B car

This is the next year in 83, still suffering the injuries but still competing in rallies

Millennial Falcon

RossD wrote: Here's a quick question: Do all newer Corvette's have a button to toggle between km/h and mph? Because getting a km/h speedometer and leaving it the mph would be kind of awesome!

This is a GM thing that they've been doing since the late 90s. They have one dial on the speedometer and switching to and from metric makes the needle change position.

And yes, people have been importing "Metric" speedometers since the beginning of the C5 days, to get 300mph speedometers...

Adrian_Thompson wrote: And just like poor Roland Ratzenberger (who I was more of a fan of than Senna dues to his BTCC Exploits) being overshadowed by Senna at Imola in 94, everyone remembers Toivinen but forgets poor Attilio Bettega who died exactly one year to the day before (MaY 2ND 1985), also in a Lancia Group B car (an 037 rather than an S4 Delta) also on the Tour De Corse.

An interesting parallel.

In both cases, the latter death was treated with greater concern (sweeping changes in F1/abolishment of Group B) because the driver who died was one of, if not the, best of the best. So clearly it had to be the fault of the cars, or the course, because if a driver that good got killed... right?

Toivonen (and Bettega) were not the only drivers to be killed in Group B, just the most visible.

Trivia: Toivonen's co-driver, Sergio Cresto, was a Texan.

Some days I think I was born about 20 years too late. And the wrong continent.

Archive photo of what a BDA actually looked like from Ford.

RossD wrote:

fireball123 wrote:

Here's a quick question: Do all newer Corvette's have a button to toggle between km/h and mph? Because getting a km/h speedometer and leaving it the mph would be kind of awesome! Assuming the numbers aren't digital and are printed.

I think so

This is two steps beyond awesome.

Want. Want bad.

fasted58 wrote:

So that's why they sell that super aggressive wheel cleaner...