{"id":9045,"date":"2006-06-10T15:10:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-10T12:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/?p=9045"},"modified":"2026-01-08T14:05:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T12:05:44","slug":"waltikka-rally-valkeakoski-finland-10-6-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/waltikka-rally-valkeakoski-finland-10-6-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"Waltikka Rally, Valkeakoski, Finland 10.6.2006"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Co-driver: Miikka Anttila<br>Chief mechanic: Pekka Asunmaa<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The roads were expected to be great in Valkeakoski, but because I was driving as the first car, I knew the roads would be slippery at least for me. This was in fact the case on the opening stage, where I ended up losing three seconds to the stage winner, Sebastian Lindholm. On the next three stages I was able to gain the gap but unfortunately only by 0,5 seconds. The differences in times were marginal and catching Lindholm felt like a lot of work. We seemed to have excactly the same speed. On stage five Lindholm increased the gap by nearly two seconds. On stage six I tried to catch him, and I achieved quite well until the last crossing where I made a stupid mistake. I came too fast to the crossing so that the rear end of the car spinned on the loose gravel. I ended up gidding the ditch for 50 meters until I was able to get the car back on the road. I lost some valuable seconds so that Sebastian was 1,7 seconds faster on this stage. The gap was 7,5 seconds when the last, a 21 kilometers long stage was left to drive. I pulled my best and didn\u2019t make any mistakes this time, but Lindholm was a bit faster though. I was to settle for the second position on both the overall and the group competition with 8,1 seconds gap to Lindholm. Lindholm was better in Waltikka Rally but fortunately I maintained my lead in the series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2nd<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Toyota Corolla WRC<br>Team: Latvala Motorsport Ltd<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Competition 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=\"906\" height=\"692\" data-id=\"15492\" src=\"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/1.10062006.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15492\" srcset=\"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/1.10062006.jpg 906w, https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/1.10062006-300x229.jpg 300w, https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/1.10062006-768x587.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 906px) 100vw, 906px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"921\" height=\"593\" data-id=\"15490\" src=\"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/2.10062006.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/2.10062006.jpg 921w, https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/2.10062006-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/2.10062006-768x494.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 921px) 100vw, 921px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Co-driver: Miikka AnttilaChief mechanic: Pekka Asunmaa The roads were expected to be great in Valkeakoski, but because I was driving as the first car, I knew the roads would be slippery at least for me. This was in fact the case on the opening stage, where I ended up losing three seconds to the stage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15490,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2006-en","category-rally-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9045","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=9045"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15500,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9045\/revisions\/15500"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}