{"id":9201,"date":"2016-04-24T16:13:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-24T13:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/?p=9201"},"modified":"2025-12-03T12:45:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T10:45:25","slug":"rally-argentina-21-24-april-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/rally-argentina-21-24-april-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Rally Argentina 21 \u2013 24 April 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

You can\u2019t avoid every stone<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you win six stages at the route of 18 stages, you\u2019re about to win.Jari-Matti Latvala was the lead in the by 14,5 seconds at the routes of Carlos Pasiz in Argentina when 13 stages have been driven. The next stage changed everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 There was rock under and a stone on the road. I drove straight over it when the stage was driven for first time without problems. It\u2019s on the driving line, so I decided to drive over it also on the second driving time, Latvala said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the second time hitting the stone broke the suspension of the front tire and that broke the bonnet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 After that I couldn\u2019t handle the car when the pace was still 150-160 km per hour. I nearly managed to keep it on the road but suddenly the car rolled three times, Latvala described the situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the crash the car was fixed in some way for Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 The chassis beams were undamaged and the front of the car rebuilt so we were able to drive it but not very fast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Latvala reached the 10th position at the two first stages of Sunday but after that he faced problems at the last stage, El Condor, when driving it for second time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 There were a stone straight on the driving line which broke the control arm. We had to change it at the stage. There were so many spectators that we needed to make quick repair and then change the place that we could repair it properly. After that we were able to reach the finish line, Latvala described the situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Latvala was 16th at the finish and brought two manufacturers\u2019 championship points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 When you are driving for the victories of the rallies, you can\u2019t avoid every stone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Otherwise you have to change the tactic and try to reach some other positions, Latvala said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hyundai\u2019s Hayden Paddon took his first WRC vicotry in Argentina. Sebastien Ogier was second, 14,3 seconds behind the rally winner, and Andreas Mikkelsen was third.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You can\u2019t avoid every stone If you win six stages at the route of 18 stages, you\u2019re about to win.Jari-Matti Latvala was the lead in the by 14,5 seconds at the routes of Carlos Pasiz in Argentina when 13 stages have been driven. The next stage changed everything. \u2013 There was rock under and a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9222,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2016-en","category-rally-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9201","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=9201"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9228,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9201\/revisions\/9228"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}