The Ford squad was forced to curtail its running in France on Wednesday after Breen and co-driver Paul Nagle clipped a bridge, sending the Puma into a spin before rolling down a 15 metre drop-off the side of the asphalt road, with the car coming to rest on its roof.
Luckily, Breen and Nagle escaped the incident unscathed but the crash halted the test and initially threatened to derail the remaining days of the team’s test.
After being able to retrieve the car through the use of a crane, the M-Sport team set to work on repairing the Puma working through the night before completing the job at 4am this morning.
Gus Greensmith has now jumped aboard the car for today’s running while nine-time champion Sebastien Loeb is expecting to test ahead of his M-Sport debut at Monte Carlo once he returns from competing in the Dakar Rally.
Speaking after the crash on Instagram, which was Breen’s first for 13 years in testing, the Irishman declared the damage to the Puma as “relatively speaking…
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