The Toyota driver was rushing hard in Sunday morning’s opening stage when he spun into a snowbank approximately 7kms into the test. The impact flicked the GR Yaris violently around and he briefly got going again, but damage to the front of the car forced the Welshman out of the rally.
Evans had been sitting second and was attempting to reel in rally leader and Toyota teammate Kalle Rovanpera after receiving a time penalty for a wild finish to last night’s spectator stage in Umea city centre. The sanction left him facing an 18.3s deficit instead of 8.3s.
Evans misjudged the final corner of Saturday night’s spectator stage resulting in Welshman sliding into a snowbank.
The soft snow bank dragged the Yaris off the road and in response Evans elected to floor the throttle to power through and over the snow bank crossing the time beam in the process.
After using an alternative route to reach the stop line the incident caught the eye of the event stewards and as a result Evans…
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