{"id":8945,"date":"2003-04-26T11:32:00","date_gmt":"2003-04-26T08:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/?p=8945"},"modified":"2026-01-08T13:01:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T11:01:22","slug":"pirelli-international-rally-first-british-rally-championship-event-25-26-4-2003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/pirelli-international-rally-first-british-rally-championship-event-25-26-4-2003\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirelli International Rally (first British Rally Championship event) 25-26.4.2003"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Co-driver Carl Williamson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rally began splendidly and I led the rally after three special stages. On SS5 it started to happen, it was very foggy and I drove to ditch. Fortunately I managed to get out off the ditch without any bigger damages, so we continued. I caught the car before me and mud flew and covered our headlights so badly that we had to stop for a while. I lost eight minutes on that stage and our position dropped from 1st to 20th On Saturday I drove steadily among three fastest driver and we moved upward to 10th overall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Motorsport News: \u201dWith visibility down to less than five metres, drivers had no option but to tiptoe their way through SS3, a 12-mile run through Harwood Forest, with young Finn Jari-Matti Latvala (Ford Focus WRC) quickest by nine seconds.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>10th overall, 5th in group A<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Car: Ford Focus WRC-01.<br>Service team: M-Sport Ltd.<br>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=\"628\" data-id=\"15145\" src=\"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2003\/04\/1.25042003-1-1024x628.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15145\" srcset=\"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2003\/04\/1.25042003-1-1024x628.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2003\/04\/1.25042003-1-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2003\/04\/1.25042003-1-768x471.jpg 768w, https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2003\/04\/1.25042003-1.jpg 1091w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"667\" data-id=\"15147\" src=\"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2003\/04\/2.25042003-1-1024x667.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15147\" srcset=\"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2003\/04\/2.25042003-1-1024x667.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2003\/04\/2.25042003-1-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2003\/04\/2.25042003-1-768x500.jpg 768w, https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2003\/04\/2.25042003-1.jpg 1062w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Co-driver Carl Williamson. Rally began splendidly and I led the rally after three special stages. On SS5 it started to happen, it was very foggy and I drove to ditch. Fortunately I managed to get out off the ditch without any bigger damages, so we continued. I caught the car before me and mud flew [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15145,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8945","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\/8945","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=8945"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15151,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8945\/revisions\/15151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}