F1 2007 world champion Kimi Räikkönen will compete on the Rally Sweden next month.Räikkönen, who made the switch to the World Rally Championship last season with the Citroën Junior Team, lodged his entry for the opening round of the season just before they closed at 15.00 hours on Monday.
The Finn will compete in the new Citroën DS3 WRC car, the same as will be driven by factory drivers Sebastien Loeb and Sebastien Ogier.
However, Kimi won't compete under the Citroën Junior Team banner, but rather under the name of new team, the ICE 1 Racing WRC Team.
Further details are currently sketchy as nothing official has been released by the former Ferrari and McLaren man.
However a spokesperson for Citroën told Crash.net that Kimi has rented the car from them and will run it under his own name, hence the creation of the ICE 1 Racing WRC Team – Räikkönen's nickname after all is the 'Ice-man'. Citroen added that as Räikkönen is leasing the car they won't be be putting out any sort of release.
Whether Räikkönen will now compete in all the WRC events this season is still unclear.
Source: Crash
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