{"id":8940,"date":"2003-02-15T15:23:00","date_gmt":"2003-02-15T13:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/?p=8940"},"modified":"2026-01-08T13:01:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T11:01:40","slug":"telford-winter-stages-wales-15-2-2003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/telford-winter-stages-wales-15-2-2003\/","title":{"rendered":"Telford Winter Stages (Wales) 15.2.2003"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Co-driver Carl Williamson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Morning was frosty. Roads were at the beginning hard and slippery for summer tyres. On stage three, I nearly turned the car over. I set fastest times on all other nine stages and I won the rally by two minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Motorsport News: \u201dThe young Finn entered the event to gain further experience of WRC cars and, with the Ford Focus he will use to contest the BRC still not finished, hired a Toyota Corolla WRC for the rally. He set fastest time on all but one of the event\u2019s ten stages and two half spins were the only blots on his copybook.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1st overall, Class 1st<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Toyota Corolla WRC 98, group A.<br>Service team JM Engineering.<br>Rally engineer Esko Reiners<\/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=\"1024\" height=\"725\" data-id=\"15154\" src=\"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2003\/02\/1.15022003-1-1024x725.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15154\" srcset=\"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2003\/02\/1.15022003-1-1024x725.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2003\/02\/1.15022003-1-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2003\/02\/1.15022003-1-768x544.jpg 768w, https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2003\/02\/1.15022003-1.jpg 1121w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"594\" data-id=\"15152\" src=\"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2003\/02\/2.15022003-1-1024x594.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15152\" srcset=\"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2003\/02\/2.15022003-1-1024x594.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2003\/02\/2.15022003-1-300x174.jpg 300w, https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2003\/02\/2.15022003-1-768x445.jpg 768w, https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2003\/02\/2.15022003-1.jpg 1124w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Co-driver Carl Williamson. Morning was frosty. Roads were at the beginning hard and slippery for summer tyres. On stage three, I nearly turned the car over. I set fastest times on all other nine stages and I won the rally by two minutes. Motorsport News: \u201dThe young Finn entered the event to gain further experience [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15154,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2003-en","category-rally-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8940","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=8940"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15159,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8940\/revisions\/15159"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}