{"id":9070,"date":"2006-09-03T15:26:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-03T12:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/?p=9070"},"modified":"2026-01-09T16:46:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T14:46:29","slug":"rally-japan-1-3-09-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/rally-japan-1-3-09-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"Rally Japan 1-3.09.2006"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Co-driver: Miikka Anttila<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our first time in Japan. The roads were fast and difficult but they suited our car. On Friday I drove carefully, avoiding the worst parts. That was a very good idea because on Friday afternoon I was leading group N. In the evening I slowed down a little bit and still kept the lead. Back to the roads on Saturday morning, even more carefully than the day before. The racing started to feel so good that I raised my speed. On Saturday evening my lead was one minute ten second.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Sunday all that was needed was to drive sensibly, avoiding faults and unnecessary risks. Everything seemed perfect until on the third last stage the rod broke and I lost the control of the car. We slid into a ditch and the car fell; that was the end of Rally Japan. It was a huge disappointment for us as well as for the team. There is no such way the breaking of a rod could be avoided beforehand. But once again something good came out of the bad: we got a lot of attention and new fans in Japan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">retirement<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Subaru Impreza WRX Sti 06<br>Service Team: Motoring Club<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=\"774\" height=\"535\" data-id=\"15544\" src=\"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/1.01092006.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15544\" srcset=\"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/1.01092006.jpg 774w, https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/1.01092006-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/1.01092006-768x531.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 774px) 100vw, 774px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"840\" height=\"547\" data-id=\"15546\" src=\"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/2.01092006.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15546\" srcset=\"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/2.01092006.jpg 840w, https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/2.01092006-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/2.01092006-768x500.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Co-driver: Miikka Anttila Our first time in Japan. The roads were fast and difficult but they suited our car. On Friday I drove carefully, avoiding the worst parts. That was a very good idea because on Friday afternoon I was leading group N. In the evening I slowed down a little bit and still kept [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15549,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9070","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\/9070","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=9070"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15553,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9070\/revisions\/15553"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}