SAVE OUR JARI-MATTI!

This poor guy’s praying to keep his rallying dreams alive.

If you’re on this site and you’re a rally fan you should be praying too.

Thankfully crash.net have now reported that Malcolm Wilson has confirmed his faith in Jari-Matti in allowing him to compete in Argentina after earlier hinting that his future at Ford was in doubt.

Jari-Matti and Malcolm are all smiles, I doubt there are many smiles in the Ford service area at the moment

Good on you Malcolm – Jari-Matti needs his team and his fans at this difficult time.

But as per usual after something like this you get the armchair critics blasting the poor boy and now he apparently doesn’t deserve his drive as he’s not making the most of his opportunities.

Latvala’s a one off.

I can see where these ‘fans’ are coming from but in my eyes he’s the best we’ve seen in years, maybe he’s just trying too hard.

He’s not a Duval, he’s not arrogant and wasting his chances. He’s quick, exciting to watch and is a genuine guy who’s passionate about what he does.

He has the speed but his unharnessed potential means he can’t take advantage of it – that’s down to the team to help him through.

I can’t begin to imagine how he’s going to tackle Argentina but what he doesn’t need is people turning on him in this stage of his career. We can’t afford to lose him now!

So come on, show your support with Remote:Service!

What a difference a year makes

This time last year we were all basking in the glory of WRC’s ‘saviour’ Jari-Matti Latvala.

His win in Sweden injected a glimmer of excitement to the WRC. He was a champion in waiting but he’s only finished on the podium once this season and has only completed the other two events using the Super Rally system after driver errors forced early retirements.

And you all know what happened this weekend. The less said about that the better.

Now fans on official WRC website the are voting whether he should stay in the team – 50% say yes, 50% say no. Earlier reports on the site also indicated team boss Malcolm Wilson was reconsidering Jari-Matti’s place in the team.

Oh dear.

I hope to high heaven that Jari-Matti’s fans aren’t turning into Lewis Hamilton fans – supporting all the way when things are good, then dropping the driver as soon as things go wrong.

Come on, rally round, show the boy some support.

A big one, a really big one

This is horrible.

Most of you guys will have already seen this and I think you’ll agree it’s pretty shocking.

If you haven’t seen it this is Jari-Matti Latvala crashing out of Rally Portugal fairly spectacularly. If you watch carefully he didn’t even clip the bank to the left too hard but it sent him flying over the barrier and 150m down a ravine – some reports are saying he rolled 12 times but I lost count.

I really don’t know how both Jari-Matti and Miikka Anttila came out of this unhurt.

It was his 24th Birthday too, what a present this was.

Hopefully we won’t see another accident like this for a long time.