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Teams already are arriving in Missouri for this weekend’s Rally in the 100 Acre Wood. (It’s from Winnie the Pooh!) Much testing is ongoing at the Bison Ranch where the landowner has private roads that he makes available for testing. Ken Block is there now. Subaru has used it for a couple years. Antoine L’Estage will be testing on Wednesday, probably at the same place. First gravel stages of the North American season. Lots of competition this weekend. We’ll be covering it along with World Rally Sport.

Ford World Rally Team driver Jari-Matti Latvala says his Rally Sweden victory has removed all the pressure which landed on him when he left round one with no points following his crash on Rallye Monte-Carlo. Latvala’s victory in Karlstad (He talked about the win on Tech House & Speed) moved him straight into fourth place in the championship standings, helped him forget his troubled start to the season and drew praise from his former world champion team-mate Petter Solberg. Here’s more:

Sweden 2012: Day 3 Stage 20 Aerial Footage.

WRC Rally Sweden 2012 Day 3 (www.RallyPulse.com) MotorsTV

The Rally Sweden takes another twist as Petter Solberg and overall leader Jari-Matti Latvala suffer punctures near the end of the rally; reportedly on the same rock!

Corona Rally Mexico 2011 Parte 1.flv The WRC 2012 schedule will return to Rally Mexico March 8-11. (This is in Spanish but the action of the cars is nice!)

Jean-Philippe Dayraut won race one at the Lans en Vercors round ahead of Olivier Panis and Jacques Villeneuve. Evens Stievenart beat Alain Prost and Jean-Baptisted Dubourg in race two.

Louis Gervoson won the first race, whereas Andrien Tambay won the second and Christophe Ferrier the third race from the Andros Trophy Electric round, which took place at Isola 2000.

Carlos Sainz Onboard – WRC Rally 2004 – Mexico

Loeb Candy: Eight-time defending WRC champion Sebastien Loeb in a F458 at Castellet!!

Rally Candy: Rallye-MAD.com Closeups: Proton’s P-G Andersson spins at 2011 Ypres Rallye.

Driver uses incredible reflexes to bypass the car which some idiot left in the middle of a rally road.

WRC World Rally Championship – Onboard with Colin Mc Rae and Nicky Grist.

Now, What Do You Think? this week: Ford WRT lead driver Jari-Matti Latvala won Rally Sweden to move into 4th in the WRC points. But he’s behind teammate and 2003 WRC champion Petter Solberg in third. Will Latvala finish ahead of Solberg in the 2012 WRC points? Yes, Of Course! Or, No, That’ll be Tough! You can vote at www.ByBillWood.com. GET BUSY!! Take a minute to vote. Learn something about yourself! http://www.bybillwood.com/online/

On this Presidents Day, columnist David Lazarus notes that the typical European country requires that workers get at least 20 days of paid leave annually. In the U.S., we’re guaranteed all of zero days of paid leave. Find more business news at http://www.latimes.com/business