{"id":10612,"date":"2002-11-17T15:46:00","date_gmt":"2002-11-17T13:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/?p=10612"},"modified":"2026-01-08T12:38:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T10:38:33","slug":"network-q-rally-great-britain-14-17-11-2002","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/network-q-rally-great-britain-14-17-11-2002\/","title":{"rendered":"Network Q Rally Great Britain 14.-17.11.2002"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Co-driver Carl Williamson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201dAamulehti\u201d newspaper: \u201dThe youngest Finnish sixth former of all times who has participated to world championship rally goes through morning\u00b4s special stages so enthusiastic that he doesn\u00b4t have time to eat his lunch. Roads are awfully slippery. Sometimes there is grip, but when I try to increase speed, problems turn up and I am near to go off the road. It is difficult to drive, when I don\u00b4t know where I can drive fast and when not, explains Latvala. Young man seemes simply eager, but admits that maybe also tension affects to his driving. First world championship rally is really something special for a rally driver. One puncture, 2 broken drive shafts, a few needless spins and on second last stage troubles with gear changer. Yet 17th in this thrilling rally. (yes !).\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201dAamulehti\u201d newspaper: \u201dAccording to Airikkala, Latvala has excellent contact for driving, but he has yet a lot to learn. Young man has intensive and versatile timetable for next year.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>17th overall, Class A8 17th<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 6,5 four-wheel drive, group A as rally car.<br>Service team Fairfield Motorsport.<br>Motor sport coach Pentti Airikkala.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1014\" height=\"714\" data-id=\"15046\" src=\"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2002\/11\/1.14112002-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15046\" srcset=\"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2002\/11\/1.14112002-1.jpg 1014w, https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2002\/11\/1.14112002-1-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2002\/11\/1.14112002-1-768x541.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1014px) 100vw, 1014px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"723\" data-id=\"15051\" src=\"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2002\/11\/2.14112002-1-1024x723.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15051\" srcset=\"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2002\/11\/2.14112002-1-1024x723.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2002\/11\/2.14112002-1-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2002\/11\/2.14112002-1-768x542.jpg 768w, https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2002\/11\/2.14112002-1.jpg 1125w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"687\" data-id=\"15047\" src=\"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2002\/11\/3.14112002-1-1024x687.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15047\" srcset=\"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2002\/11\/3.14112002-1-1024x687.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2002\/11\/3.14112002-1-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2002\/11\/3.14112002-1-768x515.jpg 768w, https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2002\/11\/3.14112002-1.jpg 1174w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1018\" height=\"658\" data-id=\"15050\" src=\"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2002\/11\/4.14112002-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15050\" srcset=\"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2002\/11\/4.14112002-1.jpg 1018w, https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2002\/11\/4.14112002-1-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2002\/11\/4.14112002-1-768x496.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1018px) 100vw, 1018px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Co-driver Carl Williamson. \u201dAamulehti\u201d newspaper: \u201dThe youngest Finnish sixth former of all times who has participated to world championship rally goes through morning\u00b4s special stages so enthusiastic that he doesn\u00b4t have time to eat his lunch. Roads are awfully slippery. Sometimes there is grip, but when I try to increase speed, problems turn up and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15050,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2002-en","category-rally-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10612"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15055,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10612\/revisions\/15055"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}