{"id":10614,"date":"2016-01-24T15:48:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-24T13:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/?p=10614"},"modified":"2025-12-03T12:45:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T10:45:25","slug":"rallye-monte-carlo-21-24-january-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/rallye-monte-carlo-21-24-january-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Rallye Monte-Carlo 21 -24 January 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It wasn\u2019t the best start for the season in Rally Monte Carlo<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

There was a traditional mix plate in Monte Carlo: dry, icy and dampy tarmac and snow on the highest altitudes of the rally. Rally started on Thursday evening with two stages driven in the dark nearby Digne and On Friday rally was driven to north from Gap. 51,55 kilometers long Lardier et Valenca and Monte-legend Sisteron were driven twice On Saturday on the way to Monaco. On Sunday the competition headed to Col de Turin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Latvala\u2019s aim was to get a good start for the season but he wasn\u2019t lucky enough. On Thursday\u2019s leg the car hit into stone fence and for the next day Latvala was on seventh place 39 seconds behind the lead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 Suddenly I lost the grip on the icy section and the rear hit. I wasn\u2019t able to push because I didn\u2019t know if there were something broken in rear suspension, Latvala said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the third day Latvala started on third place over minute behind Sebastien Ogier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 This year we drive much with slicks as there are icy sections on the road \u2013 I don\u2019t remember this happening earlier years. Usually there has been a mix of snow tires and studded tires, Latvala told about the leg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The attempt to achieve good WRC points went to a pot on the third day on a junction turning to right at 11st stage when the car crashed out. When returning to the road Latvala hit accidentally but gently to a spectator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 There was water on the road on a junction which startled me. When I was coming back to the road I didn\u2019t see clearly because of the steam rising from the engine. I saw a spectator jumping on the side of the car and I continued driving slowly back to the road. After this my team contacted me and told that I had hit a spectator, Latvala summed the situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The actual retirement was caused by Latvala\u2019s car charger and exceeding the maximum permissible time to be late from the stage start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 The charger worked that much it didn\u2019t indicate the problem with charging. When I tried to start the car, there was no power. It took a while to discover that there\u2019s power in the battery of bolt machine, Latvala said. The drivers couldn\u2019t use the rally 2 -rule for the final day of the rally, so Latvala got zero points from Monte. Sebastien Ogier was the winner and Andreas Mikkelsen on the second place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It wasn\u2019t the best start for the season in Rally Monte Carlo There was a traditional mix plate in Monte Carlo: dry, icy and dampy tarmac and snow on the highest altitudes of the rally. Rally started on Thursday evening with two stages driven in the dark nearby Digne and On Friday rally was driven […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10625,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2016-en","category-rally-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10614","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=10614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10639,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10614\/revisions\/10639"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}