{"id":11070,"date":"2017-07-02T12:01:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-02T09:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/?p=11070"},"modified":"2025-12-03T12:45:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T10:45:04","slug":"rally-poland-29-06-02-07-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/rally-poland-29-06-02-07-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Rally Poland 29.06.-02.07.2017"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Winning the Power Stage compensated retirement at Rally Poland<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jari-Matti Latvala ended Rally Poland with victory at the Power Stage and reached 6 points. The compensated saturday\u2019s retirement that ruined the changes for the podium place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAt the first pass of the Power Stage I took it really steady and raising up the feeling for the second pass. I marked up the tricky places at the first time and at the second pass I made maximum attack. There were couple mistakes, but we get those five points.\u201d Latvala summed up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At saturday Latvala was in the third place 13 seconds behind the leader when Toyota Yaris ended up to the side of the road because of the clutch and flywheel breakage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThat was huge disapointment especially when other drivers like Neuville and T\u00e4nak had problems too. Without that problem we were able to get the lead of the rally.\u201d Latvala told.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the Southeast Poland, Masuria area, roads were extremely fast and event was exceptional tricky when there were raining all the time. Especially second pass of the stages were tricky because of mud and ruts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Latvala lead the rally almost for the whole morning in the first day. At the end of afternoons loop position was third.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAt the morning there were actually quite good grip but it was changing all the time. At the afternoon I had problems with car turning in the ruts. We raised up the car for the afternoon, but not enough, I think.\u201d Thought Latvala.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The gap between rally leader Thierry Neuville and Latvala was 6,6 seconds after the opening day. Ott T\u00e4nak in the second position was 5,3 seconds behind Neuville.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fight for championship is still on<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the saturday the car was easier to drive on the muddy roads, but problem with clutch ruined the changes for the victory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAt the saturday\u2019s morning loop of stages grip was changing a lot and there were much of ruts. I felt that were driving at the good pace even in the ruts. So the retirement was big disappointment.\u201d Latvala told.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thierry Neuville won the rally. Winning margin to the team mate Hayden Paddon was 1.23,9 minutes. When T\u00e4nak retired, Latvala raised up to the third place in the WRC. He won four stages of the rally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere are still changes to fight for the championship!\u201d Said Latvala.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Winning the Power Stage compensated retirement at Rally Poland Jari-Matti Latvala ended Rally Poland with victory at the Power Stage and reached 6 points. The compensated saturday\u2019s retirement that ruined the changes for the podium place. \u201cAt the first pass of the Power Stage I took it really steady and raising up the feeling for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11079,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2017-en","category-rally-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11070","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=11070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11085,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11070\/revisions\/11085"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}