Elfyn Evans has walked away from an enormous accident on the South Estonia Rally, which destroyed his Toyota Yaris WRC rally car.

On what was a dress rehearsal for next month’s Rally Estonia – which signals the re-start of the FIA World Rally Championship – Evans was lying fourth on the fast gravel event when he cut a corner too severely and clipped a tree stump on a very high-speed sixth gear corner.

The car was thrown wide into a field, before rolling several times and coming to a halt amongst a cluster of trees.