{"id":9048,"date":"2006-07-08T15:16:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-08T12:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/?p=9048"},"modified":"2026-01-09T16:40:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T14:40:00","slug":"o-k-auto-rally-finland-7-8-7-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/o-k-auto-rally-finland-7-8-7-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"O.K. Auto Rally, Finland 7-8.7.2006"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Co-driver: Miikka Anttila<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was +30 degrees when we started the 5th rally of the season. The heat was pretty hard for the cars. As early as on the first special stage we had problems with the breaks and we were four seconds slower than the stage winner. The next two stages went well and we were third, one tenth of a second away from the second place. On stage four we started having problems with the hydraulics. The problems lasted all the way to the finish line. It wasn\u2019t easy to drive because the locks didn\u2019t work right due to those earlier mentioned problems. Still we were able to finish second, but we had an unpleasant surprise waiting for us in the finish: we were disqualified because of an incident that happened on stage two. Our car died at time control and we were pushed aside by the organizers. That was against the rules according to the judgment of FASF.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Disqualified<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Toyota Corolla WRC<br>Team: Latvala Motorsport Ltd<br>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=\"612\" data-id=\"15502\" src=\"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/1.07072006.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15502\" srcset=\"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/1.07072006.jpg 906w, https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/1.07072006-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/1.07072006-768x519.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 906px) 100vw, 906px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"844\" height=\"551\" data-id=\"15504\" src=\"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/2.07072006.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15504\" srcset=\"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/2.07072006.jpg 844w, https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/2.07072006-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/2.07072006-768x501.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 844px) 100vw, 844px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Co-driver: Miikka Anttila It was +30 degrees when we started the 5th rally of the season. The heat was pretty hard for the cars. As early as on the first special stage we had problems with the breaks and we were four seconds slower than the stage winner. The next two stages went well and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15502,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9048","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\/9048","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=9048"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15506,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9048\/revisions\/15506"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}