“We weren’t really trying to do anything too heroic at the time.

“Just having a nice run through the stage and popped around the corner about 200m from the finish and there was a nice little river running across the road. 

“As soon as we hit the stream it just snapped sideways and snapped back the other way.

“It is one of the only things I’ve been nervous about with these cars – the really wide rear tyres which act like a couple of boogie boards under your rear wheels when you hit water.

“It was on the exit of a blind corner and there was no time to prepare for it.”