{"id":8958,"date":"2003-09-06T11:43:00","date_gmt":"2003-09-06T08:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/?p=8958"},"modified":"2026-01-08T13:11:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T11:11:25","slug":"ulster-international-rally-tarmac-5-6-9-2003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/ulster-international-rally-tarmac-5-6-9-2003\/","title":{"rendered":"Ulster International Rally (tarmac) 5-6.9.2003"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Co-driver Miikka Anttila.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pressures were enormous in start, because two previous contests in asphalt in Britain had ended to ditch. I started very cautiously, but I found my confidence and speed soon. We stayed in second place in slippery asphalt for a long time. On third last stage one Irish guy passed us by in times and we tried to catch him. But I didn\u00b4t do very well, I overshot a junction and engine stopped. I tried to start but I didn\u00b4t manage before I switched the main current off and on again. We lost 45 seconds and we were fourth. In finish I was disappointed but on the other hand I had learned again a lot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4th overall<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ford Focus WRC -01<br>Service team M-Sport<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=\"804\" height=\"586\" data-id=\"15246\" src=\"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2003\/09\/1.05092003-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2003\/09\/1.05092003-1.jpg 804w, https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2003\/09\/1.05092003-1-300x219.jpg 300w, https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2003\/09\/1.05092003-1-768x560.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 804px) 100vw, 804px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Co-driver Miikka Anttila. Pressures were enormous in start, because two previous contests in asphalt in Britain had ended to ditch. I started very cautiously, but I found my confidence and speed soon. We stayed in second place in slippery asphalt for a long time. On third last stage one Irish guy passed us by in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15246,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8958","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\/8958","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=8958"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15252,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8958\/revisions\/15252"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}