Meeke set the seventh best time on the stage and then was a sensational third quickest on SS2 to move up to fourth overall. He was equal fastest with Sebastien Ogier at the opening split of SS3, but retired his MINI shortly after with a sticking throttle. Kris Meeke: “We have a lot of positives to take out of a short period of time this morning [day one of Rally d'Italia Sardegna]. The car was straight out of the box and we were able to set good times. We were up to fourth, and one second behind third. We know the car is fast. We now have to see what happens as it was a problem with the throttle that eventually put me off the road. The engineers will look at the data. The rules say we are able to start the event again tomorrow, so we are eager to get going as we are here to learn and get lots of kilometres. Unfortunately we didn’t get too many today, but those we did were very, very positive.†[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRI6TwsvTtc]YouTube - WRC Italy 2011 Meeke onboard[/ame] Source - Rally News | RallyBuzz