Jari-Matti Latvala
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Latvala in last four rallies he finised third !
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Go on Jari-Matti and no wonder i'm a fan and he's so nice in real life too
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last one he was second ... and he will win in Sardinia \o/\o/ goooo Jari!Sébastien Loeb wrote:Latvala in last four rallies he finised third !
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http://www.wrc.com/news/features/ten-qu ... ?fid=14714Ten questions to: Jari-Matti Latvala
Factory Ford driver Jari-Matti Latvala's talents on the world stage are widely recognised but few will be aware of the Finn's determination to be a model student and his love of steak, egg and cucumber sandwiches.
Wrc.com quizzed him prior to Rally d’Italia Sardegna.
What’s your favourite place in the world and why?
“It’s behind the steering wheel on a rally in the Fiesta.”
How well did you do at school?
“I was a good student. I always tried to do my best and was always ambitious whatever I have done and also at the school. I wanted to be good on the subjects. I was not the top student but I was not behaving in a bad way.”
What was your favourite toy as a child?
“Definitely toy cars, it would have to be.”
If you were stranded on a desert island what three items would you need to survive?
“Water, matches for the fire and a tool with multiple things on it.”
If you hadn’t become a rally driver what job would you be doing now?
“I would be working in the family business selling spare parts for earth movers. I always enjoyed to drive those machines and I was actually working on that side before I came a factory rally driver. I was not as good as my father but I have always enjoyed to be among the machines whatever they are.”
What’s the most annoying thing about your co-driver?
“That’s a difficult one. He doesn’t do many annoying things because he is very neutral in what he does. But if I have to try to think of something small it’s that because I’m not so careful with the timing he’s very careful always with the leaving times and quite often he is looking for me when I’m late. That’s quite annoying.”
Who is the unsung hero in your team?
“We have great mechanics but there is a guy Willy Verhoven and Danny Naessens.who is the physio. Willy is looking after our helmets, our overalls, our underwear. He does all the transportation for the drivers. Danny is the physio but he’s also helping Willy with drinks for the car and we need to remember it’s not only the factory cars but it’s also the customers. With 10 cars they do really hard work.”
What’s in your favourite sandwich?
“Slices of steak, egg, some salad like cucumber then olive oil and a little bit of vinegar.”
What would you do on your perfect day off?
“I would go to an amusement park, I always enjoy the rollercoasters.”
Your team boss is coming over for dinner. What would you cook for him?
“Some good wine, some steak, oven potatoes with the nice sauce and then I would try to make some mushroom soup for the starter and then coffee and tiramisu. But I can’t do all those myself. My sister would do it because she’s a teacher for home economics.”
LOL at the rollercoasters, he's such a kid!
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He'll bring to a desert island some tool with lots of things on it... what a GEEK!!! And trying to be a model student... he's Kimi's opposite! Love the menu for when Wilson comes over for dinner He'll make the perfect husband, Sleenie. <3 <3 <3
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I made a video showing most of Jari's recent crashes, without any silly music or anything like that!
From http://rallyrecce.com/2011/jari-matti-l ... hes-video/
From http://rallyrecce.com/2011/jari-matti-l ... hes-video/
Please check out my blog, @ http://www.rallyrecce.com or updates on Twitter
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NIrallyfan wrote:I made a video showing most of Jari's recent crashes, without any silly music or anything like that!
From http://rallyrecce.com/2011/jari-matti-l ... hes-video/
Cool video and it was nice to meet Jari-Matti twice
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Thanks for the video! I agree, don't particularly like rally videos with music, it's so much nicer to hear the engine soundsNIrallyfan wrote:I made a video showing most of Jari's recent crashes, without any silly music or anything like that!
From http://rallyrecce.com/2011/jari-matti-l ... hes-video/
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http://www.maxrally.com/features/entry/ ... _latvala1/Drive of the day: Jari-Matti Latvala
27th May 2011
By Giles Wade
Even if he’d binned it on the first corner after lunch, Jari-Matti Latvala would still have been the driver of the day today.
His performance has been sublime throughout the six stages today – but his efforts on the final six kilometres of asphalt in the El Condor test this morning beggared belief. Not even the man himself believed the numbers.
The headline figures revealed an average speed of 196kph, which meant his 202kph-geared Ford Fiesta RS WRC had spent plenty of time bouncing off the rev limiter. And let’s not forget he was doing that on wobbly-soft Michelins made for gravel and running on asphalt.
“When they told me about the average speed, I wasn’t sure it could be right,” said Latvala with a smile, before mentally recalling some of those sixth-gear slashes he’d made at corners… “Actually, it probably was right!”
The stages around Condor and between Mina Clavero and Giulio Cesare are among the toughest in the season, agonisingly twisty, bumpy, rocky and technical as they come. Not typical Finnish fodder, you’d have thought.
They were today. Latvala leads by 18 seconds.
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Interview with Jari-Mari in this week's GP week magazine
http://www.gpweek.com/PDF/GP0125.pdf
http://www.gpweek.com/PDF/GP0125.pdf
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Can someone in UK download that video where Latvala shows his house? Pleaseeeeeeee!
http://www.espn.co.uk/wrc/sport/video_a ... 2;sport=27
http://www.espn.co.uk/wrc/sport/video_a ... 2;sport=27
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All credits to iceman1 for obtaining the video , I only uploaded it to mediafireArli Racegirl wrote:Can someone in UK download that video where Latvala shows his house? Pleaseeeeeeee!
http://www.espn.co.uk/wrc/sport/video_a ... 2;sport=27
http://www.mediafire.com/?08w1zt4r7ey104r
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OMG! I can't believe that was so fast Thank you sooooooooo much Iceman 1 and Sleenster Kisses!sleenster wrote:All credits to iceman1 for obtaining the video , I only uploaded it to mediafireArli Racegirl wrote:Can someone in UK download that video where Latvala shows his house? Pleaseeeeeeee!
http://www.espn.co.uk/wrc/sport/video_a ... 2;sport=27
http://www.mediafire.com/?08w1zt4r7ey104r
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So, Autosport rumors (according Iltasanomat) that Latvala has made a deal for 2013 with WW to drive Polo R WRC. Everybody denies but Latvala's manager Timo Jouhki admits it might be a good idea to move to WW and he has been talking with Ford and WW.
http://www.iltasanomat.fi/ralli/brittil ... 07479.html (in Finnish)
WW's third driver would be young talent Andreas Mikkelsenin, Kevin Abbringin or Sepp Wiegandin.
http://www.iltasanomat.fi/ralli/brittil ... 07479.html (in Finnish)
WW's third driver would be young talent Andreas Mikkelsenin, Kevin Abbringin or Sepp Wiegandin.