Jackie Stewart describes the day he rolled a Paris Dakar Peugeot 405 T16 at a test session

In 1989 Jackie Stewart tested a Peugeot 405 Turbo 16 in France though the session didn't quite go according to plan.

Stewart was expecting Ari Vatanen and Jacky Ickx to be in attendance, to advise him how to drive the 4WD, 4WS machine, but neither were present. He was accompanied be a senior engineer who didn't really give him any feedback on how to control the vehicle.

After a couple of runs Stewart speeded up a bit until the inevitable happened. Stewart rolled the machine over a series of jumps as the nose dug in and flipped the car over. It wasn't a major roll but enough to curtail the session as the suspension was broken.

Jackie Stewart explains his fateful test in the 405 T16:

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