{"id":9006,"date":"2005-01-15T15:28:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-15T13:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/?p=9006"},"modified":"2026-01-08T13:23:58","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T11:23:58","slug":"vanajanlinna-rally-hameenlinna-finland-15-1-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/vanajanlinna-rally-hameenlinna-finland-15-1-2005\/","title":{"rendered":"Vanajanlinna Rally, H\u00e4meenlinna, Finland 15.1.2005"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Co-driver Miikka Anttila.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was great to return to WRC for a long time. First three stages were excellent, except on 2nd stage I braked little too much. As we arrived to service hault we were leading. There was only small gab between us and Kosti Katajam\u00e4ki and Jouni Ampuja. On stage 4 we suffered from snow dust, because weather was calm. That\u00b4s why we tried to tape the lights, but it didn\u00b4t help at all. After SS5 there was 16 second deficit to Jouni Ampuja, who set a benchmark on that stage. I thought already that we are going to loose all possibilites to victory. I decided anyway to go flat out and give everything I had. A surprise waited us in the finish. Jouni Ampuja had glid off the road and lost lots of time, so we were the winners. Victory felt enormously good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1st overall, Class 1st<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Toyota Corolla WRC<br>Service team Latvala Motorsport Oy.<br>Rally engineer Asko Kosonen<\/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=\"870\" height=\"527\" data-id=\"15355\" src=\"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/01\/1.15012005-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/01\/1.15012005-1.jpg 870w, https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/01\/1.15012005-1-300x182.jpg 300w, https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/01\/1.15012005-1-768x465.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 870px) 100vw, 870px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"903\" height=\"872\" data-id=\"15357\" src=\"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/01\/2.15012005-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/01\/2.15012005-1.jpg 903w, https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/01\/2.15012005-1-300x290.jpg 300w, https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/01\/2.15012005-1-768x742.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 903px) 100vw, 903px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Co-driver Miikka Anttila. It was great to return to WRC for a long time. First three stages were excellent, except on 2nd stage I braked little too much. As we arrived to service hault we were leading. There was only small gab between us and Kosti Katajam\u00e4ki and Jouni Ampuja. On stage 4 we suffered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15355,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2005-en","category-rally-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9006","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=9006"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15373,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9006\/revisions\/15373"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}