All three M-Sport Fords retired on the very same stage of Rally Italy Sardinia.
Grégoire Munster was the first to run into strife, crawling his Puma Rally1 through the all-new Telti – Calangianus – Berchidda test with broken rear-right suspension.
He made it through the stage dropping 2m33.8s – seemingly a disaster, but compared to his team-mates he was remarkably the best off.
Josh McErlean had been an encouraging sixth after the opening stage, but clouted something hard on SS2 which instantly led to the Irishman’s retirement.
Mãrtiņš Sesks’ exit was however the most dramatic; the Latvian rolling his Puma in fifth gear early on in the stage.
Munster and co-driver Louis Louka working on their car after the stage - but to no avail
Munster was the only M-Sport driver to make it out of the stage, but retired on the road section despite his best efforts to bodge a repair.
Oliver Solberg ran off and hit a wall but continued, and Roope Korhonen also went off on the stage in WRC2.
“Unfortunately there was a bit of miscommunication, but that’s life,” Solberg said.
