Raikkonen eager for Sprint Cup road race

by - 6/02/2011 02:28:00 p.m.

Kimi Raikkonen says he wants to run a Sprint Cup Series race at a road course, having tested Robby Gordon's Cup car last Tuesday at Virginia International Raceway.
The 2007 F1 World Champion said he ran few laps in Gordon's car but his test was hampered by an early off that damaged the nose of the car and then rain in the afternoon. Despite his short experience, The Finn said he enjoyed the test, which came just a few days after his NASCAR debut in the Camping World Truck Series at Charlotte, where he finished 15th.
"We had few issues in the test with the Cup car," said Raikkonen at Charlotte on Thursday. "We didn't do an awful lot of running in the morning and then in the afternoon we knew it was going to start raining. I went out and just ran a bit wide and decided to go over the grass but there was a big hole or something in the grass, so it destroyed the front a bit and then it started to rain anyhow. It was fun to drive it, the road course with that car."

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