{"id":9010,"date":"2005-06-18T15:31:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-18T12:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/?p=9010"},"modified":"2026-01-08T13:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T11:22:08","slug":"waltikka-rally-valkeakoski-finland-18-6-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/waltikka-rally-valkeakoski-finland-18-6-2005\/","title":{"rendered":"Waltikka rally, Valkeakoski, Finland 18.6.2005"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Co-driver Miikka Anttila.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Waltikka rally opened the summer season in Finland. I was quite excited because the roads were very fast. We had ran all the necessary tests on the car, so it was totally ready for this race. The rally began better than I could have hoped. I was second on special stage one. Only half a second away from the first. Arriving to first service I was 3rd, but not far from the 2nd position. At the end of SS4 I had a puncture and lost some time. But it didn\u00b4t bring me down, quite the opposite. I got the strength to carry on to SS5. I beat everyone on SS6 making the fastest time for the first time in my life in Finnish Rally Championship! On second service break I had risen to 2nd position and was able to keep that place until the end. But retirement wasn\u00b4t very far. The clutch broke down in the end of the last special stage and we just made across the finishing line in time!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2nd overall, Class 2nd<\/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=\"930\" height=\"618\" data-id=\"15344\" src=\"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/06\/1.18062005-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15344\" srcset=\"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/06\/1.18062005-1.jpg 930w, https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/06\/1.18062005-1-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/06\/1.18062005-1-768x510.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 930px) 100vw, 930px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"898\" height=\"614\" data-id=\"15342\" src=\"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/06\/2.18062005-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/06\/2.18062005-1.jpg 898w, https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/06\/2.18062005-1-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/06\/2.18062005-1-768x525.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 898px) 100vw, 898px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Co-driver Miikka Anttila. The Waltikka rally opened the summer season in Finland. I was quite excited because the roads were very fast. We had ran all the necessary tests on the car, so it was totally ready for this race. The rally began better than I could have hoped. I was second on special stage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15342,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9010","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\/9010","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=9010"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15353,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9010\/revisions\/15353"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}