{"id":13075,"date":"2019-08-04T12:34:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-04T09:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/?p=13075"},"modified":"2025-12-03T12:44:43","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T10:44:43","slug":"neste-rally-finland-01-04-08-2019-result-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/neste-rally-finland-01-04-08-2019-result-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Neste Rally Finland 01.-04.08.2019 \u2013 result: 3."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The beginning of the season went badly. It was time to start the other half of the season in Jyv\u00e4skyl\u00e4. Due to the bad beginning of this season we were tenth in the series. We had to help the team to get the manufacturer\u2019s title so we had to succeed in Jyv\u00e4skyl\u00e4. So the pressure was huge. Luckily it was my homerally, the stages were familiar and they were more or less the same as in last year\u2019s event. I knew I had to be in top speed right from the first moment of the race which I managed to do. On the first stage I really was racing. One of the hardest racing days of the whole series I had ever driven was Friday. The gaps were only tenths of a second after Friday but we did lead. The race was even harder on Saturday with Meeke, T\u00e4nak and Lappi. In Kakaristo on Saturday there was a right-left combination and some concrete to prevent cutting. Last year the obstacle was on the right now it was on the left and I took a slightly different angle and had to go around on the left. I went in on the right hand side and throttled a bit too early and went into a ditch. Of course there was a stone there which I hit and instantly the rim broke down. After that I just tried to manage the stage through and had so many thoughts on my mind. Would everyone pass me now and would everything just go into pieces? But I was lucky and were able to drive so fast even with a broken rim that I was only 14 seconds behind the leading time of this stage. Although even the tire and the side of our car was totally ruined. After the stage we changed the tire and continued the race. Meeke hit the same rock (what a place!) and he had to retire because he broke the suspension. This time I was luckier. We needed the manufacturer\u2019s points so I had to concentrate on getting them and not to do any more damage. E-P Lappi started to drive faster so he passed me. I let him go and concentrated on getting the car over the finish line safely. Our first podium (third position) and good manufacturer\u2019s points because T\u00e4nak won. That was our plan, that came true and that was good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The beginning of the season went badly. It was time to start the other half of the season in Jyv\u00e4skyl\u00e4. Due to the bad beginning of this season we were tenth in the series. We had to help the team to get the manufacturer\u2019s title so we had to succeed in Jyv\u00e4skyl\u00e4. So the pressure […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13198,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2019-en","category-rally-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13075","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=13075"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13296,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13075\/revisions\/13296"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}