{"id":13758,"date":"2021-02-13T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-13T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/?p=13758"},"modified":"2025-12-03T12:44:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T10:44:08","slug":"mesikammen-rally-2021-13-02-2021-result-1st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/mesikammen-rally-2021-13-02-2021-result-1st\/","title":{"rendered":"Mesik\u00e4mmen Rally 2021, 13.02.2021 \u2013 result: 1st"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mesik\u00e4mmen Rally 2020 had to be cancelled because of bad winter (no winterlike conditions) and Mesik\u00e4mmen Rally 2021 was under a threat of cancellation due to Covid 19, but the organisers did a great job and the rally could be driven without an audience.&nbsp; There were four stages in the rally. Three of which were driven in the T\u00f6ys\u00e4 area and one was driven in Myllym\u00e4ki, \u00c4ht\u00e4ri. These roads were homeroads for me.&nbsp; Stage two went past my Granny\u2019s place using the road where I used to practise when I was 16. I was really looking forward to this rally because it was in 2006 when I had last raced past my Granny\u2019s house. We drove my good, old familiar Toyota Celica, as did my father Jari, too. So Latvala Motorsport had two cars in the race.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The competition went well. It was enjoyable to drive in that wintery scenery. There was enough snow and the temperature was properly below zero. I hadn\u2019t raced for a while so my driving was a bit angulated at first until my co-driver Juho H\u00e4nninen told me to keep the front of the car inside and make the car come out of the corners in a straight position. Only one note was too slow which made me throttle down in vain. My Dad was also able to drive a harmonious race although I had to grab some snow and put out a small fire under his car at the finish of the last stage. There was a small crack in the turbo oil pipe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We won my own category, the Historic. We were the fastest overall, but I was having an advantage of driving on home ground. I was glad to see how my Dad drove after a break of two years in racing: he was second (after me) in his category (the Historic) and 11th overall.<\/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 decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" data-id=\"13760\" src=\"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/thumbs_2021mesikammenralli-00102.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13760\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" data-id=\"13762\" src=\"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/thumbs_2021mesikammenralli-00107.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13762\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" data-id=\"13764\" src=\"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/thumbs_2021mesikammenralli-00095.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13764\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" data-id=\"13766\" src=\"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/thumbs_2021mesikammenralli-00101.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13766\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mesik\u00e4mmen Rally 2020 had to be cancelled because of bad winter (no winterlike conditions) and Mesik\u00e4mmen Rally 2021 was under a threat of cancellation due to Covid 19, but the organisers did a great job and the rally could be driven without an audience.&nbsp; There were four stages in the rally. Three of which were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13764,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2021-en","category-rally-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13758","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=13758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13768,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13758\/revisions\/13768"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}