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Raikkonen and Meeke could be team players
view post Posted on 26/11/2010, 14:45 by: Ice Lady87

Raikkonen and Meeke could be team players

By Sammy Hamill
Thursday, 25 November 2010

Former Formula One World champion Kimi Raikkonen is being linked to a role alongside Ulsterman Kris Meeke in the new BMW Mini rally team.

The Finn, champion in 2007, was the highest paid driver in F1 before being displaced at Ferrari by Fernando Alonso at the end of the 2009 season.

Rather than move to another team, he switched to rallying and has been part of the Citroen junior team this season, mixing accidents with fast stage times.

Despite stories suggesting a return to F1 next season, Raikkonen has insisted he wants to continue in rallying and now is poised to test the new Prodrive-developed Mini Countryman which will make its World championship bow in the Spring of next year.

Meeke, the 2009 Intercontinental Challenge champion, is the first driver signed by the team but is expected to be joined shortly by Dani Sordo, World champion Sebastien Loeb’s No.2 at Citroen. But Mini, it seems, are interested in Raikkonen as well. Prodrive managing director Richard Taylor said: “Kimi has brought a lot of profile into the WRC so of course he would be of interest to any manufacturer.”

Apart from Raikkonen’s profile there are other reasons for Mini’s interest.

He would come with personal sponsorship from Red Bull — as does Meeke — and the four-wheel-drive Mini Countryman road cars are built in Austria, home of the energy drink company’s founder, Dietrich Mateschitz.

The Mini is also the company’s promotional vehicle of choice. Red Bull are committed to one further year of sponsorship with Citroen but a switch to Mini would coincide with the team’s full assault on the World championship in 2012.

Meeke, meanwhile, has said he would be happy to see Spaniard Sordo join the team.

Currently continuing the Mini development programme in Sardinia, he said: “Apart from the fact we have been friends since out Junior World championship days and have worked together regularly on Citroen’s test days, Dani has good knowledge of the new Citroen DS3 and would bring that expertise with him.

“There are not many guys around with his experience of the new breed of cars which will appear in the World championship next season. He would be a good addition to the team.”

Former World champion Marcus Gronholm had been expected to join the team. But the Finn has changed his mind, saying he “doesn’t want to do a Michael Schumacher.”

www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sport ... 13050.html




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WRC: Mini and Monster chase Räikkönen for 2011
view post Posted on 16/9/2010, 16:22 by: Ice Lady87

WRC: Mini and Monster chase Räikkönen for 2011
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Kimi Räikkönen is thought to have received offers to join both Mini and the Monster World Rally Team for 2011, as uncertainty over the Finn's future beyond the current campaign continues.

The 2007 Formula One world champion joined the Citroën Junior team in the WRC this year, and was thought to be close to signing a contract extension with the French squad. Räikkönen himself dropped strong hints at last weekend's Rally Japan that his preference was to remain where he is for 2011.

"I don't have anything [signed] right now, but I like it where I am," said the 30 year-old. "The people are nice and the car is good but it depends on so many things. It's not just up to me- if I could choose I would have chosen already. But it's not that simple."

And it has now emerged that Red Bull- who are funding Räikkönen’s WRC efforts with Citroën- could be behind the bid to take him to the Prodrive-operated Mini team, with rival energy drink company Monster wishing to pair the Finn with Ken Block at their squad.

Speculation over Räikkönen's future in rallying comes the same week the Finn has been linked with a Formula One return, with Renault F1 team principal Eric Boullier claiming that Räikkönen has approached him about a seat with the team.

"Räikkönen is on the radar [for the 2011 driver line-up] now. He contacted us," Boullier told Autosport.

However Räikkönen has given no indication that he plans to return to single-seaters, remarking at Rally Japan that his future “will probably be in rallying”.

The Finnish driver has had a steady debut season in the WRC, taking a best finish of fifth in Turkey and currently sitting tenth in the drivers’ championship with 21 points.




James Weeks.


Source: www.motorstv.com/car/rally/wrc/1609...k%C3%B6nen-2011



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