{"id":10766,"date":"2016-10-30T11:37:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-30T09:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/?p=10766"},"modified":"2026-03-22T14:10:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T12:10:30","slug":"wales-rally-gb-27-30-10-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wales-rally-gb-27-30-10-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Wales Rally GB 27.-30.10.2016"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Drive shaft failure spoiled Latvala\u2019s rally in Wales<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Muddy and slippery forest roads of the Wales are almost as well-known as the Finnish ones for Jari-Matti Latvala. This year lady fortune wasn\u2019t with Jari-Matti and Miikka when they started the rally. He celebrated manufacturers\u2019 title with his teammates, Sebastien Ogier and Andreas Mikkelsen after VW had confirmed manufacturers\u2019 championship. However, Latvala didn\u2019t jump to the podium, because he was 7th in the competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Latvala had to gave up for his dream of reaching the podium place as the drive shaft went broken at the second last stage of the opening leg, at a junction driven with high speed. At that point Latvala was third in competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Luckily we didn\u2019t hit with trees and luckily the spectators pushed us back to the road as after the car went backwards and we got stuck in the ditch, Latvala said.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Why did the driving shaft went broken? That is something that I don\u2019t know. The roads here are surfaced with rough macadam. It might be hard for the drive shaft\u2019s protection rubbers. Latvala was left far behind from the lead at the opening stage that he drove with care. Then he managed to climb up to the third position.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Damaged drive shaft dropped him to the eight position, 3,43 seconds behind from the lead. After that Latvala started to narrow the gap between Mads \u00d6stberg driving ahead, being faster than Norwegian at the final stage. Latvala climped up to the seventh position.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The second day of the rally was full of pumpy driving. I didn\u2019t find confidence with braking and couldn\u2019t enjoy driving. In addition I made mistake at the Powerstage, Latvala said.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>When I managed to pull ahead of \u00d6stberg on the final day, I just focused on driving to the finish line and confirming the manufacturer\u2019s championship.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>VW\u2019s Sebastien Ogier won the competition and Ott T\u00e4nak took the second position.<\/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=\"1024\" height=\"761\" data-id=\"15885\" src=\"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/1.27102016-1-1024x761.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15885\" srcset=\"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/1.27102016-1-1024x761.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/1.27102016-1-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/1.27102016-1-768x570.jpg 768w, https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/1.27102016-1.jpg 1116w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"757\" data-id=\"15887\" src=\"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/2.27102016-1-1024x757.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15887\" srcset=\"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/2.27102016-1-1024x757.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/2.27102016-1-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/2.27102016-1-768x567.jpg 768w, https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/2.27102016-1.jpg 1451w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drive shaft failure spoiled Latvala\u2019s rally in Wales Muddy and slippery forest roads of the Wales are almost as well-known as the Finnish ones for Jari-Matti Latvala. This year lady fortune wasn\u2019t with Jari-Matti and Miikka when they started the rally. He celebrated manufacturers\u2019 title with his teammates, Sebastien Ogier and Andreas Mikkelsen after VW [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15885,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10766","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\/10766","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=10766"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15899,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10766\/revisions\/15899"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}