Colin McRae is out of the Network Q.

He went out seven kilometres into the final stage of leg two in the fifteenth stage.

The Scot's Ford Focus was sliding off the track, hitting a car left from the earlier running of the stage.

Two wheels were torn off according to McRae.

Both driver and navigator Nicky Grist are reported to be fine.

The other McRae, Alistair, crashed out earlier in the day.

Elsewhere, Richard Burns managed to hold onto his lead despite suffering an under-bonnet fire.

With two stages to go on day two, he had opened up a 26.7-second lead over Subaru team-mate Juha Kankkunen.

The Englishman's victory bid looked to have literally gone up in flames when his engine caught fire on a road section following stage 11.

But Burns and co-driver Robert Reid extinguished the blaze, then got back in the car and limped to the Builth Wells service area where their mechanics resolved the problem.

It was a worrying end to what had been a fantastic second morning for Burns, whose performance in mid-Wales had rendered his 'Battle of Britain' with McRae a one-sided affair.

No word yet on how Eamonn Boland's been faring in tonight's stages.

Unofficial Overall Classifications after Special Stage 15

These results are published by ICL & Sculptor on behalf of the MSA

							Gp	Cl	Other	Total		+Prev	+Leader
Pos	Comp		First Driver/Second Driver	Car	Nat/Nat	G/C	Pos	Pos	Pens	Penalty		Diff	Diff	Cats
1	5		Richard Burns/Robert Reid	Subaru Impreza WRC99	GB/GB	A/8	1	1		2:01:41.0				M
2	6		Juha Kankkunen/Juha Repo	Subaru Impreza WRC99	FIN/FIN	A/8	2	2		2:02:10.0		+0:29.0	+0:29.0	M
3	15		Marcus Grönholm/Timo Rautiainen	Peugeot 206 WRC	FIN/FIN	A/8	3	3		2:02:25.2		+0:15.2	+0:44.2	M
4	9		Harri Rovanperä/Risto Pietiläinen	SEAT Cordoba WRC E2	FIN/FIN	A/8	4	4		2:04:43.8		+2:18.6	+3:02.8	M
5	1		Tommi Makinen/Risto Mannisenmaki	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution	FIN/FIN	A/8	5	5	0:10.0	2:05:07.7		+0:23.9	+3:26.7	M
6	4		Didier Auriol/Denis Giraudet	Toyota Corolla WRC	F/F	A/8	6	6		2:05:42.8		+0:35.1	+4:01.8	M
7	14		Francois Delecour/Daniel Grataloup	Peugeot 206 WRC	F/F	A/8	7	7		2:06:18.1		+0:35.3	+4:37.1	M
8	8		Thomas Rådström/Gunnar Barth	Ford Focus WRC	S/S	A/8	8	8	1:00.0	2:06:19.6		+0:01.5	+4:38.6	M
9	2		Freddy Loix/Sven Smeets	Mitsubishi Carisma GT	B/B	A/8	9	9		2:07:23.9		+1:04.3	+5:42.9	M
10	3		Carlos Sainz/Luis Moya	Toyota Corolla WRC	E/E	A/8	10	10		2:08:18.2		+0:54.3	+6:37.2	M

Cats: M=WRC, T=Teams Cup, 2W=2-litre World Cup, A=Amateur, L=Ladies, 2=2-Litre