Kimi's Column: The Suomi-boy's element

Swedish Rally preview in Finnish

The winter is gone, the new cars came. We have trained and tested as much as possible. Spent time on the countryside, cottage and own privacy. The new season starts and we have been waiting for it for some time already - I guess as much as the thousands fans also have.

It has been even more cool to start the new season because everybody starts with new cars. The car feels good. Kaitsu will continue as co-driver and that's a cool thing because we have all the time been in such a good sync with each other.

So far we have agreed upon a 10 rally program.

It's good to start from Sweden. It's cool to drive on snow. Before last year snow was the surface I had most experience of but after last season I now have experience of all the roads.

However snow is a Suomi-boy's element. Now it's a completely different thing and experience to start this rally when we are in the traffic for the second time and we have old notes to rely on. Now we have some kind of impression and understanding over what happens there when we have last year's routes.

Let's just hope that the road bears and doesn't create any nasty surprises.

In the winter I got to carry out a longtime idea of helping Finnish motocross back to the level it belongs to in the world. In the team we drive and support two dudes in the in the WC-serie and six youngsters in Finland. We do this project together with Kari Tiainen.

I've been in Spain training a bit myself too. It's a really good and efficient form of training. I recommend it to everybody.

The sad thing for the whole motorsport-gang is Robert Kubica's rally accident. It's the worst nightmare for all racing drivers that something happens. Although the safety arrangements in the cars are better these days, the risks are still the same when you fasten your belt and put on your helmet. No matter in which genre. Something can always happen.

It's really sad that it now happened to Robert. Let's wish he recovers soon and gets back driving the same way like before.

Source: KimiRaikkonen.com
Courtesy: Nicole