{"id":8996,"date":"2004-05-08T12:13:00","date_gmt":"2004-05-08T09:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/?p=8996"},"modified":"2026-01-08T13:15:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T11:15:31","slug":"rally-costa-smeralda-italy-gravel-6-8-5-2004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/rally-costa-smeralda-italy-gravel-6-8-5-2004\/","title":{"rendered":"Rally Costa Smeralda, Italy (gravel) 6-8.5.2004"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Co-driver Carl Williamson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We tested the new car. We had problems already in the beginning. We didn\u00b4t have enough grip and engine performance was weak. When schock absorber broke down, we had to retire on SS4 because of factory defect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>retirement SS4<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ford Fiesta, Super 1600cc -04.<br>Service team Astra Racing<\/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=\"671\" data-id=\"15276\" src=\"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/05\/1.06052004-1-1024x671.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/05\/1.06052004-1-1024x671.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/05\/1.06052004-1-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/05\/1.06052004-1-768x503.jpg 768w, https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/05\/1.06052004-1.jpg 1148w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"646\" data-id=\"15278\" src=\"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/05\/2.06052004-1-1024x646.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/05\/2.06052004-1-1024x646.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/05\/2.06052004-1-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/05\/2.06052004-1-768x485.jpg 768w, https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/05\/2.06052004-1.jpg 1109w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Co-driver Carl Williamson. We tested the new car. We had problems already in the beginning. We didn\u00b4t have enough grip and engine performance was weak. When schock absorber broke down, we had to retire on SS4 because of factory defect. retirement SS4 Ford Fiesta, Super 1600cc -04.Service team Astra Racing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15278,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2004-en","category-rally-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8996","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=8996"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15280,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8996\/revisions\/15280"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}