{"id":8569,"date":"2015-03-06T14:45:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-06T12:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/?p=8569"},"modified":"2025-12-03T12:45:45","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T10:45:45","slug":"rally-mexico-05-06-march-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/rally-mexico-05-06-march-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Rally Mexico 05 -06 March 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Slipperiness surprised \u2013 good fortune didn\u2019t favor Latvala in Mexico<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wild, graveled roads and engine output consumed by low-owygen air waited for drivers in Rally Mexico. The weather instead was exceptionally cool on mornings which caused slippery and problems for Latvala in the beginning of the rally when Latvala was trying to get used to a new WRC-Polo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 I couldn\u2019t find the confidence with the rear of the car. I was afraid of oversteering, Latvala said after the first day of the rally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The tire choise that turned out to be too cautious ate up the speed. In cold weather conditions the soft tires would have been the right choise. Latvala got only one soft tyre for the four stages driven on cold Friday morning \u2013 and the rest of the tires were hard, which are normally used in Mexico.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 Soft tires aren\u2019t normally used in rally of Mexico but this time it would have been wise to choose them, Latvala said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Friday the temperature dropped under 10 degrees in some places, which meant that the soft alloy doesn\u2019t get hot and consumed in the same way as what it would do under normal conditions in Mexico.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Latvala started the Saturday\u2019s stage from the second position but wasn\u2019t lucky enough. He drove out of the road and stopped his rally when the car hit the wall of the rock on the second stage. As a result of this the left rear wheel left off five kilometers before the finish of the stage. There was still two stages left before accessing to the service park so Latvala had to stopped his rally. At that point Latvala had dropped to seventh position.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 There were two junctions in a row turning to right and two holes in a row in inner bend. I tried to skirt the first hole and the car slipped from the clear driving line to the slippery surface. After that the rear of the car hit the wall of the rock, Latvala thought back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 Driving rhythm was good. The speed didn\u2019t have anything to do with this situation. I made a mistake when I tried to set the front suspensions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Latvala returned to the competition on Sunday but couldn\u2019t get points on the Powerstage after reaching the fourth position. Latvala, who had two fastest times on the competition was finally fifteenth. Sebastien Ogier took the win where as Mads \u00d6stberg with Citroen was second.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Slipperiness surprised \u2013 good fortune didn\u2019t favor Latvala in Mexico Wild, graveled roads and engine output consumed by low-owygen air waited for drivers in Rally Mexico. The weather instead was exceptionally cool on mornings which caused slippery and problems for Latvala in the beginning of the rally when Latvala was trying to get used to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8570,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2015-en","category-rally-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8569","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=8569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8598,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8569\/revisions\/8598"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}