Thursday, February 11, 2010

Räikkönen sweared to the spectators walking on the road

Kimi Räikkönen cursed to the ill-behaved swedish spectators in Swedish rally test special stage.

Räikkönen admits that he heated up behind the wheel.

I am swearing there [in the car] if there are spectators on the road, like today they walked there two times, the Iceman told about his reaction to MTV3.


Räikkönen drove the shakedown through six times improving his time every time.

- Driving was little lost in the beginning. It took a couple of times for me to again get used to the car, Kimi commented.

The fastest driver on the test-SS, Sebastien Loeb, ran 6 seconds away from Räikkönen in the 4 kilometre long stage.

- I'm quite a lot of years behind the top-drivers in experience. Of course I develop all the time but it will take time before I'm fast enough, but that's just normal. People are expecting that I should be fast right away but I don't have that kind of expectations myself because I know that this is only in the initial stage and everything is new. Let's go step by step, Räikkönen told.

Räikkönen predicts that he will be left further from the top in Swedish Rally than in Rovaniemi in Arctic-rally, where he lost about 0,9 seconds per kilometer to Citroen's Daniel Sordo. Räikkönen is driving the Swedish rally's special stages in the coming weekend for the first time.

- Here it is more difficult than in Arctic-rally where I had one year experience. The fast stages seem difficult here. I'll try my best and let's see how it goes, Kimi said.

Getting experience of Citroen's WRC-car is the most important thing for Kimi at the moment.

- Experience makes the biggest difference, that can't be taught. I can improve more by driving than by doing changes to my car, Kimi said.

Source: MTV3
Courtesy: Leijona Planet-F1

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