Volkswagen's Jari-Matti Latv꧟ala has lost over three minutes on Wales Rally GB after going off in Saturday morning's opening test a💞nd getting stuck in a ditch.

Latvala finished the first le🐎g 6.6 seconds off rally leader Sebastien Ogier and was pushing hard to close the gap to his team-mate when he made an error n🌠ear the end of the 8.25 km Clocaenog East 1 test and went off. He was helped back onto the test by some spectators, although he lost the rear spoiler in the incident.

"ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚIt was a very good stage up to that point where we went off!" Latvala said. "I was doing really well, but then it was very slippery coming into a corner and I was a little late on the braking and stalled the engine.

"I tried to turn into the bend but the car wouldn't restart and ꦅwe went backwards and slipped off🍒 into a ditch and got stuck."

Latvala now drops to tenth place overallꦺ, leaving Ogier with a 1 minute 13.8 seconds cushion over Mikko Hirvonen in s🃏econd.

Kris Meeke is third, just 4.8 seconds back, with Mads Os🍬tberg also in the battle for the 💝runners-up spot, 1.3 seconds further adrift.