Kimi set to drive for Citroen
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December 5, 2009, Saturday
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EX-FORMULA One world champion Kimi Raikkonen will compete for Citroen in the World Rally Championship next season, the team announced yesterday.
Raikkonen, who won the 2007 F1 championship, left Ferrari at the end of the 2009 F1 season to make way for the arrival of Fernando Alonso.
Citroen said the Finnish driver would compete for its Red Bull-backed Junior Team in 2010.
"For the moment we have a one-year contract and we will see how it goes for the future," Raikkonen said in a statement. "I am really looking forward to testing the car and taking the start of the first rally."
The one-year contract keeps alive the chances of Raikkonen returning to F1 in 2011, with the Red Bull connection in his new rally team likely to trigger speculation of a move to the Red Bull F1 outfit.
Raikkonen took part in one WRC race in 2010 -- the Rally of Finland for Tommi Makinen Racing in a Fiat -- during a break between F1 races, and had long been an enthusiast of a sport that has a strong pedigree of Finnish champions.
"I always wanted to compete in rally, especially in the World Rally Championship at some point in my career," said Raikkonen.
"Thanks to Red Bull, I have the opportunity to drive the best car of the series with the Citroen C4. This is a new but very exciting challenge."
The only rally Raikkonen will miss next year is the Rally of New Zealand, in which his team will not compete.
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