Wilson out of Sweden

Matthew Wilson has pulled his entry for next weekend's Rally Sweden after breaking his ankle in a training accident near his home in Cumbria.

Wilson was out running as part of his fitness programme and fell at an awkward angle. He was taken to hospital, looking as he has broken and dislocated his ankle.

“It looks as though I’ve broken and dislocated my left ankle so, unfortunately, that means no Rally Sweden for me,” he said.

Understandably disappointed, Wilson revealed how he had been preparing for the Swedish round better than he had been for Monte Carlo.

"I was really looking forward to Sweden. We were a lot more prepared for this rally [than Monte Carlo] and we would have been looking for a good result. I'm absolutely gutted." he added.

Wilson's team, the Go Fast Energy World Rally Team, has elected not to run a replacement driver, so regular driver Henning Solberg will be the team's sole entrant for the second round of WRC 2012.