David Evans: Just been speaking to DMACK's Dick Cormack, who is devastated, to get the full story of Tanak's lead loss.

"We haven't spoken to Ott but from what we can see and what the splits show, we can only imagine there's been an impact on the wheel early on the stage. The tyre was off the rim and you really wouldn't expect that, especially not in the wet if he'd only run for a short space of time," he said.

"We'd earned this one."