Kimi’s Rally Adventure Starts With A Visit To The Factory

Kimi Räikkönen’s big WRC adventure starts next week when the 30-year
old Finnish driver pays a visit to Citroen’s factory in France. Making
the seat and the first trial with the Citroen C4 shuttle built for
Räikkönen is in the program.

Räikkönen and Kaj Lindström will drive their first rally with
Citroen on January 28-30th in Rovaniemi when the duo participate as
outsiders to the Arctic Lapland rally. The WRC rally starts two weeks
later in Sweden.

The motorsport world has already been wondering over how Räikkönen
can go to a completely unfamiliar WRC serie with so little experience.
The truth is that Kimi himself is the least worried about it.

Räikkönen doesn’t belong to those drivers who need to sit for five
days in the car just so that they get to know it. As a full-blooded
professional he takes the bull by it’s horns immediately and goes to
check out how far his own pace takes him.

Those who know Räikkönen better praise him, telling he is now more
relaxed than he has ever been during his whole F1 career. Kimi is
practically bursting with enthusiasm now that he gets to go driving
again.

Red Bull owns the F1 team but on the rally-side they are just
Citroen’s close partner. Citroen runs the racing team. Red Bull pays
Kimi’s salary just like Red Bull pays Sebastian Vettel’s and Mark
Webber’s salaries in F1.