{"id":9295,"date":"2014-08-03T13:17:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-03T10:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/?p=9295"},"modified":"2025-12-03T12:46:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T10:46:53","slug":"neste-oil-rally-finland-31-july-3-august-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/neste-oil-rally-finland-31-july-3-august-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Neste Oil Rally Finland 31 July \u2013 3 August 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Latvala beat Ogier and captivated the spectator in Jyv\u00e4skyl\u00e4<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jari-Matti Latvala\u2019s thrilling victory in Neste Oil Rally Finland didn\u2019t leave anyone cold. Impressive tour de force and famous Finnish sisu were praised not only by other drivers and the spectator but also by the media. The Finnish star of Volkswagen himself gave thanks to the spectator, co-driver Miikka Anttila and sport psychologist, Cristoph Treier\u2019s support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 I have never had feeling like this before. I got this same feeling already on the shakedown and through the whole rally, Latvala smiled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This season Neste Rally returned to the well-known graveled roads and Grand Prix-views of Central Finland. On the route some new challenges were set by Pihlajakoski and P\u00e4ij\u00e4l\u00e4 stages that were new to all drivers and were driven twice on Friday. Also Kakaristo, that was modified version of Ouninpohja, set an interesting challenge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stages driven on Saturday were familiar to the drivers, legendary and superfast Myhinp\u00e4\u00e4 was the highlight of short Sunday<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Latvala won 13 out of rally\u2019s 26 stages, where as 3,6 seconds slower Sebastien Ogier won 12, being second fast in the rally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Latvala was hard pressed on Saturday, when he lost near half minute lead due to breakage of a brake caliper in Jukoj\u00e4rvi 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 At that moment I decided that I won\u2019t lose this rally. I lost in Sardinia although I was in lead. Same happened in Rally Corsica last year. I made a decision that I won\u2019t let it happen for third time, Latvala said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the last day of the competition Latvala\u2019s speed was tough but driving went steadily and without any mistakes, despite the great excitement. Latvala made a bottom time on the Ruuhim\u00e4ki 1. and was one second slower than Ogier in Myhinp\u00e4\u00e4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Latvala was 3,7 seconds lead when starting the final stage, Ruuhim\u00e4ki that was driven for second time. Ogier took 0,1 seconds better time there but Latvala and Anttila gained their second victory of the Neste Oil Rally Finland which they aired wildly in the finish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 In last three years the French drivers have won here. They have shown their skills and speed. I wanted to win this rally for Finnish rally fans. I\u2019m sure that this victory is heartened by them and they will come to Jyv\u00e4skyl\u00e4 also in next year, Latvala said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With his win Latvala narrowed Ogier\u2019s margin of lead to 44 points. When there\u2019s five competitions left, Latvala\u2019s chances to take part in the battle for the championship aren\u2019t still gone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 If I had lost, it would have meant that I\u2019m the second in WRC-championship. Now I managed to keep the battle for the championship alive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During this season, Latvala has won also Rally Sweden and Rally Argentina. Throughout his whole career there are eleven victories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Latvala beat Ogier and captivated the spectator in Jyv\u00e4skyl\u00e4 Jari-Matti Latvala\u2019s thrilling victory in Neste Oil Rally Finland didn\u2019t leave anyone cold. Impressive tour de force and famous Finnish sisu were praised not only by other drivers and the spectator but also by the media. The Finnish star of Volkswagen himself gave thanks to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9320,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2014-en","category-rally-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9295","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=9295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9330,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9295\/revisions\/9330"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latvalamotorsport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}