Gardemeister: Puncture a real shame.

Crash.Net, October, 2008

Toni Gardemeister reckons he could have got good points for Suzuki on the Rally RACC Catalunya-Costa Daurada last weekend if it wasn't for a puncture on the opening day.

Gardemeister looked all set to at least get a manufacturers' point until he lost more than two and a half minutes on the repeat-run through the 21.26 kilometre Querol stage, something that dropped him from tenth to 18th.

While he had a largely trouble-free run through days two and three by then the damage was done and he could only finish 13th.

"It's a shame that we picked up the puncture on the first day, otherwise I am sure that we could have got some good points here," said the Finn.

"This rally has been very useful for us though, as we have come away with a lot of vital information for Corsica. I'm also ...