{"id":9008,"date":"2005-02-19T15:29:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-19T13:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/?p=9008"},"modified":"2026-01-08T13:37:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T11:37:40","slug":"vaakuna-rally-mikkeli-finland-18-19-2-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/vaakuna-rally-mikkeli-finland-18-19-2-2005\/","title":{"rendered":"Vaakuna rally, Mikkeli, Finland 18-19.2.2005"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Co-driver Teppo Leino.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Originally my father supposed to drive this rally, but he said I would benefit much more driving this rally than he would. SS1 went really bad, because I didn\u00b4t find rhythm. Then we made some adjustements and after that everything started to work and so stage times improved. The rest of the day was ok. Maybe I drove too much sideways because in the end there was quite big gab between us and the lead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was not quite satisfied to fourth place but now I know what to improve in my driving. We\u00b4ll see in future how that goes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4th overall, Class 4th<\/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=\"966\" height=\"598\" data-id=\"15347\" src=\"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/02\/1.18022005-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/02\/1.18022005-1.jpg 966w, https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/02\/1.18022005-1-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/02\/1.18022005-1-768x475.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 966px) 100vw, 966px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"903\" height=\"605\" data-id=\"15349\" src=\"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/02\/2.18022005-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/02\/2.18022005-1.jpg 903w, https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/02\/2.18022005-1-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/02\/2.18022005-1-768x515.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 903px) 100vw, 903px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Co-driver Teppo Leino. Originally my father supposed to drive this rally, but he said I would benefit much more driving this rally than he would. SS1 went really bad, because I didn\u00b4t find rhythm. Then we made some adjustements and after that everything started to work and so stage times improved. The rest of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15347,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9008","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\/9008","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=9008"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15354,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9008\/revisions\/15354"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}