in an official capacity for Citroen junior rally team at the 2010 Arctic Lapland Rally is my main man, Kimi Raikkonen, Iceman Extraodinaire. All in all, with the exception of a crash early in the first day, apparently he is doing real good. Though the accident did set him back quite a bit, however, all reports show that he'll be a force to reckon with once he hits his stride. It'll probably take a coupla races but I know we can get there. Explaining his crash to Finnish tv station MTV3, this is what Kimi had to say:
"I heard the note wrong and we drove into the snow bank because of it. There was a tree, about as thick as a leg, and we went through it.
These things happen. That's why we came here, so that we could screw up everything that can be screwed up and learn from that. We also want to prevent the same mistakes from happening in the upcoming rallies."
Anyways, at the end of the first day, he finished second to Citroen team-mate Dani Sordo, the man at the top of the standings at this point, on three of the four remaining stages but is more than 30 minutes behind, due to the crash, in the overall standings.
The hard thing for me in all this is I just don't understand rallying rules. At all. Even after wikepedia-ing it, I just don't get it. The no international cable coverage also does not help so I am currently relying on Google News for info (yea, we're back to that), just not quite as fanatically as before. Photos are courtesy of rallybuzz. Have a great second day, Kimi!
"I heard the note wrong and we drove into the snow bank because of it. There was a tree, about as thick as a leg, and we went through it.
These things happen. That's why we came here, so that we could screw up everything that can be screwed up and learn from that. We also want to prevent the same mistakes from happening in the upcoming rallies."
Anyways, at the end of the first day, he finished second to Citroen team-mate Dani Sordo, the man at the top of the standings at this point, on three of the four remaining stages but is more than 30 minutes behind, due to the crash, in the overall standings.
The hard thing for me in all this is I just don't understand rallying rules. At all. Even after wikepedia-ing it, I just don't get it. The no international cable coverage also does not help so I am currently relying on Google News for info (yea, we're back to that), just not quite as fanatically as before. Photos are courtesy of rallybuzz. Have a great second day, Kimi!
