Raikkonen stacks his rally car

[noisebox]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsp ... 125463.stm

So looks like Ferrari have a reject rally driver to join the reject bike racer at Valencia!

[lostpin]

Probably he wanted to stop for a sheeeet..

[Debaser]

He was running 15th at the time? That's pretty good for a rookie in all seriousness. But to crash his rally car is pretty embarassing, maybe the urge for vodka overcame him...

[Henrique]

Oh, you ppl are so mean

[lostpin]

Probably they told him on the radio that Schumi is eating his ice-cream right now...

[Jack O Malley]

Domenicali has just called Eddie Irvine...

[tristan1117]

Isn't this the second time he's crashed a rally car this year?

[Cynon]

Probably wanted to stop for some ice cream and a Coke and figured that crashing was the fastest way to do that!

[BB01]

He was running 15th at the time? That's pretty good for a rookie in all seriousness. But to crash his rally car is pretty embarassing, maybe the urge for vodka overcame him...

He was apparantly 3rd in class, too.

Unconfirmed reports suggest the mask from the gorilla suit fell down and blocked his vision

[RejectSteve]

He dumped it in the same ditch as Mads Ostberg. He must have thought the Impreza was an ice cream truck.

[muttley]

At least Valentino Rossi finished 12th overall at the RAC Rally. Ditch Kimi and give "Il Dottore" a drive for next season

[Lotus_Position]

Clearly he saw an ice-cream cart amongst the spectators

[CarlosFerreira]

That's what happens when you leave a Ferrari behind and start driving a FIAT...

[WeirdKerr]

At least hes not injured....... though the trees will probably be on sale as ikea flat pack furniture soon.....

[Nuppiz]

That's what happens when you leave a Ferrari behind and start driving a FIAT...

Oh yes, he had already suffered suspension problems and his engine was just about to fail, so I guess he just ditched it up the tree to give the fans a show.

And in an interview for the Finnish TV he showed his straightforward speech again:

Interviewer: Kimi, where did your rally end now?
Kimi: Well, in the woods, of course.

And in another interview:

Kimi: It rolled a little.

[CarlosFerreira]

That's what happens when you leave a Ferrari behind and start driving a FIAT...

Oh yes, he had already suffered suspension problems and his engine was just about to fail, so I guess he just ditched it up the tree to give the fans a show.

And in an interview for the Finnish TV he showed his straightforward speech again:

Interviewer: Kimi, where did your rally end now?
Kimi: Well, in the woods, of course.

And in another interview:

Kimi: It rolled a little.

You just have to love the man, don't you?

[Nuppiz]

Oh yes, he's got great humor when he's happy, and during the rally you could see that he was much less reserved and much happier than on the F1 paddock. He really seemed to enjoy the rally.

[Nin13]

Not for the first time this year, Raikkonen’s rally effort ended with a crash. He was competing in a round of the World Rally Championship for the first time, contesting his home event in a Abarth Grande Punto S2000 entered by Tommi Makinen Racing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0LfLvZCPuc

Raikkonen came to grief 3km into the 29km Vaarinmaja stage (picture of the crash here). He had been 15th overall.
http://www.wrc.com/jsp/index.jsp?lnk=10 ... 20rallying

After the crash he said:
I knew that place but I came in with too wide a line. I thought we were going to go wide but then, unfortunately, there were a lot of rocks and when I hit them the car went over.

He had other problems during the rally as well:
I thought we wouldn’t finish the rally because we had too many problems with the engine! But it was good fun and nobody got hurt. It happens - it’s part of rallying.

http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2009/08/01/a ... n-crashes/

Earlier in the weekend he indicated he would like to make a switch to rallying in the future, perhaps after his Ferrari contract is scheduled to run out at the end of next year. He may get a chance sooner than that, if rumours Ferrari intend to buy him out of that contract to bring in Fernando Alonso prove true.

[Nin13]

Isn't this the second time he's crashed a rally car this year?

Yeah!! Few months ago he crashed at Italian rally, now Finninsh rally!!