Ford's Petter Solberg has 💃confirmed that a technical failure was not responsible for his off this morning in the openꦕing test in France.

Early speculation, based on 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:video footage of the incident, seemed to indicat🦂e he might have had brake problems or a 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 his Fiesta RS WRC ca🔯r 🍒too severely to continue.

Speaking back in se🀅rvice, 🎃Solberg 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 ag𒉰ain, 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 ꦍa telegraph 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 wa꧒s confident of getting third."

"Obviously when you look at the pictures🎐 it's unbelievable," he added in an interview on t🦂he official WRC site.

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