QUESNEL RAISES HIS HAT TO KIMI

by - 1/03/2010 09:21:00 p.m.

Kimi Räikkönen has lately been dragged through the mud by Ferrari. Yet his new employer Olivier Quesnel thinks that Räikkönen's last F1-season was excellent.
- Although Button won the championship I would want to raise my hat to Kimi Räikkönen. He won a GP with Ferrari even though the car hadn't been developed at all after summer, Quesnel said on France 2 -channel's website.

Räikkönen will participate in next season's WRC-serie with Citroën's junior team funded by Red Bull.
- His switch to WRC is a good flick to F1 who think they are above all other genres. It's positive that he will come for the transition year (Super 2000 -cars are in the WRC-serie in 2011). Prodrive will come in 2011, Volkswagen in 2012. The WRC-serie touched the bottom but is now heading upwards, Quesnel evaluates.

Because Citroën and Peugeot both belong to the same PSA-corporation many have already been speculating that Räikkönen would take part in Le Mans 24 next summer with the Peugeot 908 -car. Quesnel is also the leader of Peugeot's motorsporting activity.
- There are rumours about Räikkönen driving in Le Mans with a 908 but I haven't thought about it myself. At the moment our client (Red Bull) has leased Citroën C4-car to WRC-races - not sportcars, Quesnel reminded.

(MTV3)

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