Kimi Räikkönen is today a WRC driver. The Flying European module airman digit of digit Citroën CR4 Junior Team cars with Kaj Lindström as his co-driver. It's been in the entireness for a while, and from the sounds of it, no digit appears to hit whatever doubts that Raikkonen module do substantially there. Team politico histrion Quesnel rates the ex-Ferrari airman highly, saying, "What he did there in a S2000 was amazing," when speaking of Kimi's run in an Abarth in a Suomi feat earlier this year.
Even 2003 WRC denomination succeeder Petter Solberg puts Kimi in with a shout, commenting, "If he's in a decent World Rally Car incoming flavour I conceive he could closing between ordinal and ordinal on whatever rallies." This module place quaternary Citroën cars in incoming year's Championship, with backward denomination winners Sébastien physiologist and justice Elena, Dani Sordo and Marc Marti, plus the lowly cars of Räikkönen/Lindström and Sébastien Ogier and co-driver Julien Ingrassia. You crapper check discover Citroën's authorised release after the jump.
[Source: Citroën]
PRESS RELEASE
CITROËN RACING AND RED BULL GIVE WINGS TO KIMI RÄIKKÖNEN IN 2010
4th Dec 2009 -- Since its establishment in 2008, the connexion between Citroën Racing and Red Bull has already reaped concern titles for Citroën, Sébastien physiologist and justice Elena in 2008 and 2009*, and the ties between the digit companies are to be stepped up for incoming season. In constituent to the Citroën Total World Rally Team-entered C4 WRCs of Sébastien physiologist and Dani Sordo, a second aggroup module also today run digit C4 WRCs for Kimi Räikkönen and Sébastien Ogier in the emblem of Red Bull and Citroën.
The cooperation between Citroën and Red Bull, which dates back to the 2008 Rally Argentina (won by Sébastien physiologist and justice Elena) and which has since harvested 15 another wins, is to be improved in 2010. As in 2008 and 2009, the digit Citroën Total World Rally Team-run C4 WRCs module both sport the conveying of the famous forcefulness drink, and the defending World Champions hit renewed their establishment in Sébastien Loeb/Daniel Elena and Dani Sordo/Marc Marti.
The care module be long in 2010 to allow the digit Citroën Junior Team cars that module contend in Red Bull's emblem on 12 of the 2010 FIA World Rally Championship's 13 rounds, the omission being the Rally of New Zealand. These digit Citroën C4 WRCs module be campaigned by Kimi Räikkönen/Kaj Lindström and Sébastien Ogier/Julien Ingrassia.
Finland's Kimi Räikkönen, 30, who has won 18 Formula 1 Grands Prix, claimed the Formula 1 concern crown in 2007, and oppose individual rallies in 2009 - including his bag ammo of the WRC - said: "I ever desired to contend in rally, especially in the World Rally Championship at whatever saucer in my career. Thanks to Red Bull, I hit the opportunity to intend the prizewinning automobile of the series with the Citroën C4. This is a new but rattling elating challenge. For the time we hit a one-year lessen and we module wager how it goes for the future. I am rattling looking nervy to investigating the automobile and attractive the start of the prototypal rally."
Citroën Racing Director, histrion Quesnel added: "Red Bull's dedication and forcefulness are a perfect sound for Citroën's current desire for victory. We module move to count on Sébastien and Dani to indorse our concern titles in 2010, and we module also be prolonging our connexion with Sébastien Ogier who showed unpaid possibleness this year. Last but not least, it is with immense joy that we recognize Kimi Räikkönen to our ranks. We are rattling chesty that he has chosen Citroën. In constituent to the commendation of these quaternary crews, we module hopefully be healthy to foretell another programmes over the reaching weeks."
* Subject to the authorised business of the results by the FIA
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