Juha Kankkunen has given tips to Kimi regarding his future rally career.

– Kimi going to rally is a really huge thing for the whole sport. The appreciation for the genre was going down but now it's rising again, Kankkunen told Viihdeuutiset.

Kimi's surprise move to rally has been the topic of all motorsport-people around the world. Even though Kankkunen thinks that Kimi's move is a good thing, he would have hoped that Kimi would have stayed in F1 for a while.

– I told Kimi that you should have stayed in F1. Now there is no interesting Finnish driver left there.

– Kimi is talented and he is a game-man so he will do well in any genre. And you don't know if Kimi will still go back to F1. The lack of motivation is the worst thing in top sport and if you haven't got it anymore, then you don't want to continue either. This is what happened to skijumper Janne Ahonen for example and now he has returned back to the top after keeping a break.

(MTV3)