{"id":8425,"date":"2014-06-29T13:31:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-29T10:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/?p=8425"},"modified":"2025-12-03T12:46:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T10:46:53","slug":"lotos-rally-poland-27-29-june-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/lotos-rally-poland-27-29-june-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Lotos Rally Poland 27 \u2013 29 June 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Problem with damper dropped Latvala from the podium<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Poor tests ruined Jari-Matti Latvala\u2019s chances to fight for the victory on the superfast roads of the Rally Poland, that came back to WRC-calendar after five years, as slightly renewed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 There was a problem with the car setup when the rally started. It was caused by pre-test that wasn\u2019t success. There were many junctions on the test-road and that\u2019s why it was too slow. Therefore, the setting was too hard, says Latvala who reached the fifth place in the competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 The worst situation during the rally is that you have to change the car setup, just like I did. Second last day of the rally we hit the rock and the mounting of the upper part of the damper broke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 The breakage of the damper dropped Latvala\u2019s place from the third to seventh, but he was able to reach the fifth place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 We fixed the damper right after the stage, when there was one stage to go before the service. Then we fixed the structure again before the start of the next stage. This turned out be mistake. The structure broke and there we lost the podium-place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Visit Lithuania didn\u2019t work<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the final day of the rally the setup of Latvala\u2019s car was right and he drove really hard to catch Mikko Hirvonen who was in fourth place. At he end of the rally the margin to fourth position was only 0,7 seconds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 I could have driven faster the last stage of the rally, Powerstage, if I had had better touch with the stage. The previous day, when the same stage was driven for first time, I had the problem with the damper so I drove it quite steadily, said Latvala who was third on the Powerstage. VW\u2019s Sebastien Ogier was the winner of the rally and he left behind VW\u2019s Andreas Mikkelsen and Hyundai\u2019s Thierry Neuville.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Latvala welcomes Rally Poland and it\u2019s center, Mikolajiki, to WRC-calendar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 Great competition, but in the future some things will need to change. The competition days were even 16-17 hours long and there were long waiting times between.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 Also the two special stages driven in Lithuania turned out be a mistake of the rally organizers. The soft stages were driven only once before the road got so bad condition that the stages had to cancel before the second drive\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Problem with damper dropped Latvala from the podium Poor tests ruined Jari-Matti Latvala\u2019s chances to fight for the victory on the superfast roads of the Rally Poland, that came back to WRC-calendar after five years, as slightly renewed. \u2013 There was a problem with the car setup when the rally started. It was caused by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8416,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2014-en","category-rally-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8425","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=8425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8448,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8425\/revisions\/8448"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}