The Toyota driver admitted his title hopes were a long shot coming into the rally as the Welshman needed to outscore title rival and team-mate Kalle Rovanpera to take the fight to next month’s Japan finale.
However these hopes are now hanging by a thread after crashing out of stage 11, the final test of the Saturday morning loop.
Running in third position, Evans slid off the road at right hander at relatively slow speed and then collided with a shed that ripped a rear wheel from his GR Yaris.
“The car braked initially okay and the speed came off as I had expected but at the moment I turned in it locked an inside front wheel and it pushed us out, and when the road is narrow like that there was absolutely nowhere to go,” Evans, a two-time rally winner this year, told Autosport.
“It wasn’t too big an impact. We were heading into the shed, let’s say, too fast to go in head first.
“We tried to rotate the car to maybe see if I could get away with hitting it sideways but unfortunately I caught the radiator on the corner of the shed.
Source: Autosport