Kimi Räikkönen Press Conference in Neste Oil Rally Finland 2009

Kimi really is personality personified isn't he. The sponsors must love him!

It's interesting that he found out about MS "about the same time as everyone else" and that Michael is driving the "second" car I also loved the way that he refused to elaborate with the second question.

Poor Seb must have wondered what he was doing there as he was a spectator until the end. 5 WRC v 1 F1 WDC and no one wanted to speak to him

 

That was the English language interview.

Yanks have no WRC coverage. And in England, I think it's now illegal to have fun on country roads.

 

Kimi now up tp 3rd position in his class.

 

Despite a couple of first day mishaps with notes Kimi is demonstrating blistering speed for a rookie. Too bad his POS Fiat is rapidly falling apart. The suspension and the engine are both failing and it is unclear if he'll be able to finish the race. In all fairness, Anton Alen who is running second in group N also drives a Fiat albeit a newer and more advanced version. Still it would be really interesting to see Kimi in a REAL rally car like Ford, Citroen or Subaru that can take the punishment in Jyväskylä.

 

Looks like Kimi rolled his car over a few times. Preliminary reports indicate that no one's hurt. He was running 15th overall and 3rd in Group N at the time.

 

Imagine if Kimi injured himself. Who would sub for him? Alonso??

 

No, Eddie Irvine.

 

a vid of his roll http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2o2ihc1Ghko

 

Don't think they actually inforced that, and thats if it wasn't just a joke by Clarkson.

 

Clearly the force is not in his hair.

Cut it Kimi!