SAVE OUR JARI-MATTI!

5 04 2009

wrc-2008-deu-xp-00333This 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 Malcom are all smiles, I doubtthere are many smiles in the Ford service area at the moment

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!





A big one, a really big one

4 04 2009

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.








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