Kimi Räikkönen, who drives in Citroën's Junior Team in WRC-rally, will start to prepare for next season's challenges shortly.

F1-champion's transfer to rally is the best possible PR-stunt for the WRC-series and Citroën. This is admitted also by Citroën's rally-boss Olivier Quesnel.

- Everybody is saying that I did the deal of the century. I am thrilled about Kimi's arrival, but to tell you the truth I have never even met him before. It will happen next week, Quesnel said in French Endurance-Info.com- net sites interview.

Also Quesnel said once again that he doesn't have plans to drive Räikkönen in Le Mans 24 hour race with Sebastien Loeb.