Fo🐓rd's Petter Solberg has confirmed that a technical failure was not re🎀sponsible for his off this morning in the opening test in France.

Early speculation, based on 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:video footage of the incident, seemed to indicate he might have had brake problems or ꦓa stuck throttle, as he went off and then ploughed through dense vines, before re-joining the stage and going off again. In the end he came to rest🌄 after hitting and felling a telegraph pole, which alarmingly almost collected a couple of spectators.

While on-one was injured, the impact damaged the front right of ܫhis Fiesta RS WRC car too severely to continue.

Speaking back in service, Solber🎃g added that💙 he was confident he would have been able to finish in third.

"I had a clean run from the start of the stage but went♑ off the road at a fast left corner and into the vines," he explained. "I kept my foot on the throttle because I knew the road was coming up again, but I didn't know exactly where or when. The windscreen was covered with leaves so I couldn't see properly and the road came up sooner than I thought.

"I went straight across the stage and into the vines on the other side. I eventually hit a teleg🍃raph pole. It was a big hit but I didn't immediately realise the pole had fallen down. It was only later that I knew it toppled over.

"I'm disappointed because I had a clean rally up to that point and I was confident of getting t🎀hird."

"Obviously when you look at the pictures it's unbel🍃ievable," he added in an interview on the official WRC site.

"For sure something happened and obviously I🍒 have to look with Chris [Patterson - my co-driver] at w𒉰hat happened but nothing broke on the car," clarified the 37-year-old.