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Kris Meeke has accepted full responsibility for the Monte Carlo Rally accident that ruled him out of day one of the World Rally Championship season-opener.
The Citroen driver was running in second place going onto stage four on Friday morning.
Seventeen miles into the 23-mile Aspres les Corps-Chaillol test, he hit a bank and retired with suspension damage to his C3 WRC.
"There's not much to say," Meeke told Autosport.
"It's not unfortunate, I chose the speed for the corner and there was a lot less grip than I anticipated."
Meeke admitted he had been caught out by the conditions in a high-speed section.
"The road was completely polished, but it looked like snow and with snow you have a bit of substance, a bit of something to take some grip from," he said.
"The conditions are so complicated here, in places the road looks white, but it's snow that's melted a bit and then frozen again overnight.
"It's like glass. With these tyres, when you touch that, you've nothing.
"It was fifth or sixth gear, but that doesn't matter - I was too fast for the corner.
"We slid wide, touched the bank and that spun us around and broke the right-rear."
Meeke will return to the action on Saturday, using the event's final two days as an opportunity to gather more data on Citroen's all-new C3 WRC.
"Obviously a result is out of the question," said Meeke, "but everybody's learning a lot with the new cars and we have to continue and try to adapt to the conditions."
