{"id":13175,"date":"2009-05-26T10:37:47","date_gmt":"2009-05-26T17:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=13175"},"modified":"2009-05-27T20:45:57","modified_gmt":"2009-05-28T03:45:57","slug":"automobile-rally-car-wrc-final-push-puts-stobart-back-in-the-points-in-sunny-sardinia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=13175","title":{"rendered":"Automobile Rally Car &#8211; WRC: Final Push Puts Stobart Back in The Points in Sunny Sardinia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Stobart VK M-Sport Ford drivers Matthew Wilson and Henning Solberg put early set-backs behind them to earn a superb double-points finish at the sixth round of the FIA World Rally Championship, Rally d\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Italia Sardegna.\u00c2\u00a0 Wilson produced another consistent performance to finish sixth overall while Solberg just missed out on seventh place despite a last-minute charge that saw him win two of the last three stages.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Following the ceremonial start on Thursday night outside the town hall in Olbia the 60 starters headed away from the coastal town inland towards the forests on Friday morning to tackle two three-stage loops covering 130kms.\u00c2\u00a0 Conditions were hot and hard and proved a stern test for the Pirelli Scorpion control gravel tyres used by all the teams.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Wilson and co-driver Scott Martin suffered a hydraulic problem only a couple of kilometres from the start of SS1 forcing the young Brits to use manual gear shift throughout the morning stages.\u00c2\u00a0 The centre diff of Wilson\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Ford Focus RS WRC was also affected by&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoracingdaily.com\/news\/world-rally-championship\/wrc-final-push-puts-stobart-back-in-the-points-in-sunny-sardinia\/\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<center>[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stobart VK M-Sport Ford drivers Matthew Wilson and Henning Solberg put early set-backs behind them to earn a superb double-points finish at the sixth round of the FIA World Rally Championship, Rally d\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Italia Sardegna.\u00c2\u00a0 Wilson produced another consistent performance to finish sixth overall while Solberg just missed out on seventh place despite a last-minute charge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-rally-car"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13175"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13364,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13175\/revisions\/13364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}