One to forget for Suzuki.

The Suzuki World Rally Team endured another difficult outing on the Jordan Rally last weekend with Toni Gardemeister and Per-Gunnar Andersson both failing to finish.

Suzuki's problems began almost immediately with Andersson going off the road in the opening Suwayma 1 test, just 6 kilometres in.

Although his car was completely undamaged and the Swede managed to get the car back on the road himself - having located some pieces of wood to place under the wheels, allowing the car to reverse out of the ditch it had landed in - unfortunately he reached the end of the first stage out of time and was unable to continue.

While he re-joined under the SupeRally on Saturday and then set some good times, including a sixth fastest time in SS15 and a fourth best effort in SS18 on the last day, he went out in the next stage, when he slid off the road.

"This is a really disappointing end to the event for me and for the team. I don't really understand what happened on stage 19 and how I ended up off the road," said P-G. "It had been going well for me. It was very loose, with a lot of gravel on the surface of the road, but we hadn't had a problem.

"We came into a slow left-hand bend, which led into a hairpin right. I had a half-spin after the left, which dropped the front of the car down into the inside of the hairpin. The car went nose in. The rear wheels were still on the road. I put the car in reverse gear straight away, hoping it would reverse out, but the gradient was too steep.

"Jonas [Andersson - my co-driver] and I jumped out of the car to try and get some more people to help us. Only two people were around. We tried to lift the car out, but it was impossible. On the stage before we'd been fourth quickest, and I was really enjoying it."

Toni Gardemeister's outing though was even worse and the Finn went out on the first loop on Friday when his engine was damaged when a rock hit the sump. The issue was sufficient to prevent him from rejoining under the SupeRally on day 2 and so he did just two of the 22 stages.

"Of course I am disappointed not to have finished this event," he added. "You go to every rally wanting to get to the end, chasing the best possible result. Here I had a real feeling that we could get the SX4 WRC high up the order.

"I knew there would be a high rate of attrition on what's going to be one of the hottest rallies of the year, but I was really sad that we were one of the early victims. The good thing is that P-G has shown some pace yesterday, which is an indication of what the SX4 WRC is capable of."

Suzuki team manager Paul Wilding meanwhile also tried to take the positives from what had been a tough weekend.

"I think the performance which the team has turned in has demonstrated the speed and the potential of the SX4 WRC," he continued.

"We have been able to take a lot of encouragement from this result.

"P-G was under a second per kilometre off the pace of the fastest car yesterday, which demonstrates what the Suzuki SX4 WRC is capable of."