Raikkonen to contest Rally of Finland
Kimi has been trying out quite a few rallies lately. Maybe he's bored of F1 and the politics, maybe he knows Alonso is coming (shit!). Anyway, good luck Kimi and do your best. Tuesday 30th June 2009 Kimi Raikkonen will make his World Rally Championship debut in his native Finland at the end of July. Raikkonen, F1 World Champion in 2007, has already competed in three non-championship rallies this year and will enter Rally Finland in a Fiat Abarth Grande Punto. His co-driver will be compatriot Kaj Lindstrom, who was formerly co-driver to four-times WRC champion Tommi Makinen. "Rally Finland is not going to be easy for sure," Lindstrom told autosport.com . "The rallies we have done so far have been smaller events, a three-day WRC round is much longer and more intense than those national events. "We have two days to go through the recce (reconnaissance) and make the notes. Kimi makes very good pace...