Kimi makes a good start on Rally Finland

31st July 2009

*Turn on the captions (CC) for the subtitles* On Monday Kimi and his team-mate Anton Alén were testing their Fiat S2000 cars for the WRC Rally Finland 09 which has now started.

Racecar's F1 driver Kimi Raikkonen rounded off this morning's loop of stages by setting his most competitive stage time of the event so far.

Raikkonen, who was F1 world champion in 2007, is making his WRC and gravel rally debut in Finland this weekend, driving his own Abarth Grande Punto S2000 in front of his home crowd.

With five stages complete, Kimi brought his car back to the Service Park in 19th place overall. His time through the most recent stage, SS5, was just 1.2sec slower than that of Finnish rising star Anton Alen in an identical car.

Raikkonen's co-driver Kaj Lindstrom is acting as Raikkonen's spokesman during the event and said Kimi's driving was getting better and better.

"This one was perfect," Kaj said after SS5. "He started the day a little bit frosty [on SS2] but he was there on SS3 and was going even better on Mokkipera until we missed a junction. This last one was perfect. I think we're going to be fine!"

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