"Räikkönen drove completely reasonable times"

They believe that Kimi Räikkönen's rallying career is over for now when he is seriously negotiating about a comeback to F1. Kimi drove in WRC for only two seasons but the difference to the top has been several minutes. His best result is Rally Turkey in 2010 when he came in 5th.

SWRC-serie's world champion from this year, Juho Hänninen with Skoda, was often faster than Räikkönen although Räikkönen drove in a class higher with a WRC-car. Still Hänninen thinks that Räikkönen's performances in rally were good.

- I think that it was a realistic result. Maybe the majority expected more and I bet Kimi himself also expected more, however Kimi realised pretty quickly that it isn't that easy. Still he made good times especially when driving a stage for the second time since he remembered them better. That's when he drove completely reasonable times, Hänninen told Sport Content.

Hänninen reminded that rallying requires a lot of training and that it takes several years to develop into a top driver.

- Nobody can succeed in this without practice, Hänninen said.

Source: elisa.net
Courtesy: Nicole