2009 World Rally Championship

[Bram Hengeveld]

 

[Hannu Karesola]

A small update..

Dani Sordo will also drive Arctic Lappland Rally Finland end of this month. So it takes only two weeks and we'll get first taste about Kimi's pace. :drool:

Also red that Kimi got rid of last years Abarth and gave it to his brother Rami who propably will drive it at Lappland.

Mika Salo joins that rally with fwd Fiesta, so overall lineup is pretty interesting.

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

Aha that explains the speed he has! So Rami is the brother of Kimi!! Strange that they dont have the same last name

 

[James Johnson]

Aha that explains the speed he has! So Rami is the brother of Kimi!! Strange that they dont have the same last name

LOL Rami Raikkonen?

 

[Hannu Karesola]

LOL finally understood it. Took only 24h

 

[Danny Pattiwael]

A small update..

Dani Sordo will also drive Arctic Lappland Rally Finland end of this month. So it takes only two weeks and we'll get first taste about Kimi's pace. :drool:

Also red that Kimi got rid of last years Abarth and gave it to his brother Rami who propably will drive it at Lappland.

Mika Salo joins that rally with fwd Fiesta, so overall lineup is pretty interesting.

Is Kimi's brother any good, Hannu ?

 

[Hannu Karesola]

Pretty ok in rally and track series in national level but seems he is not as fast as his litlle brother.

 

[GAIAjohan]

I hope his citroen is doing well

 

[Hannu Karesola]

He's been testing Citroen on friday and saturday near Jyväskylä. If not on rally Finland roads then at least pretty close. Couple days to go and then we'll see something

http://www.arcticrally.fi/english/arcticlaplandrally.html

140 cars from WRC to historic cars will start next Friday to fight their way to be the Finnish Rally Champion in their own class 2010.

Kimi and Sordo have best cars so I believe it's not hard for Dani to win this rally. Kimi should be somewhere pretty close to top if he doesn't crash

 

[Hannu Karesola]

Nice jump! Seems someone has been watching his tests during this weekend.

 

[Michael Herrmann]

lol Crazy Kimi

thanks for posting and recording? Hannu

 

[Hannu Karesola]

Someone else recored it. Hopefully more videos from the test appears to youtube soon.

Full throttle all the time during the flight

 

[Michael Herrmann]

thanks to the limiter or he would have blowed the engien

 

[Hannu Karesola]

Longer clip from the test. Seen on tonights sport news...

 

[Warren Dawes]

We were all doing jumps like that in our RBR Event last week, Frosty Finland. :drool:

Seriously, Kimi will add a tremendous amount of interest to this year's WRC, and I expect he will surprise a few top drivers too. Looking forward to this year's WRC.

 

[Hannu Karesola]

Best video so far:

 

[Danny Pattiwael]

Great stuff. Thanks Hannu.
He's allready looking very focussed. Can't wait to see him next to the big names.. Still think Loeb has a big gap, when it comes to experience obviously, but Kimi ... well he's from Finland, so there you go

 

[Hannu Karesola]

One more

 

[Danny Pattiwael]

u can hear he's motivated and excited to go rallying...

 

[Hannu Karesola]

Arctic Rally started today and unfortunately Kimi is already out. After the 1st stage he was 2nd, 5 seconds behind Sordo but went off road in stage 2 and couldn't get back. Hopefully he can continue driving tomorrow. In first stage he was 0,5s slower/km than Sordo.

EDIT: He is moving again half hour behind others but still in the rally