{"id":8907,"date":"2002-07-13T16:12:00","date_gmt":"2002-07-13T13:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/?p=8907"},"modified":"2026-01-08T12:45:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T10:45:14","slug":"jim-clark-memorial-national-rally-asphalt-rally-13-7-2002","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/jim-clark-memorial-national-rally-asphalt-rally-13-7-2002\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Clark Memorial National Rally, asphalt rally 13.7.2002"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Co-driver Steve Harris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My first rally in tarmac and first rally, where I could learn the route beforehand. I had tremendous problems through the whole rally. Left rear bearing broke and that caused loosen wheel. We didn\u00b4t surrender, so we drove to finish with only three wheels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Motorsport news: \u201dDrive of the day. Jari-Matti Latvala twice lost a rear wheel on his Clio when the bearing collapsed. But the fearless Finn reached service each time and won his class despite road penalties. A star is born.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>48th overall, Class S5 1st<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rally car: Renault Clio, group N, front-wheel drive.<br>Asquith Autosport as service team.<br>Motor sport coach Pentti Airikkala.<\/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 fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"944\" height=\"564\" data-id=\"15098\" src=\"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2002\/07\/1.13072002-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15098\" srcset=\"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2002\/07\/1.13072002-1.jpg 944w, https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2002\/07\/1.13072002-1-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2002\/07\/1.13072002-1-768x459.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 944px) 100vw, 944px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"937\" height=\"720\" data-id=\"15100\" src=\"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2002\/07\/2.13072002-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2002\/07\/2.13072002-1.jpg 937w, https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2002\/07\/2.13072002-1-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2002\/07\/2.13072002-1-768x590.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 937px) 100vw, 937px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Co-driver Steve Harris. My first rally in tarmac and first rally, where I could learn the route beforehand. I had tremendous problems through the whole rally. Left rear bearing broke and that caused loosen wheel. We didn\u00b4t surrender, so we drove to finish with only three wheels. Motorsport news: \u201dDrive of the day. Jari-Matti Latvala [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15100,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2002-en","category-rally-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8907","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=8907"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15104,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8907\/revisions\/15104"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}