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Kimi
Raikkonen got his World Rally Championship switch underway in
earnest on Tuesday when he completed his first test in the Citroen
Junior Team C4 WRC that he will use for his maiden full-time rally
campaign.
The
former Formula 1 world champion completed approximately 50
kilometres of running with the car on a gravel test track at
Citroen's workshop at Satory in France.
"I
very much enjoyed meeting the team properly for the first
time," he said. "It was good to try out a few different
things; I was very interested to see how the car reacted when you
changed some of the settings. Now I'm really keen to get back
behind the wheel of the C4 again."
Raikkonen's
first competitive run in the car will come on the Arctic Rally in
Finland on 28 January, which he is contesting in preparation for
the WRC season opener in Sweden on 12-14 February.
Although
he contested several national events and the Finnish round of the
WRC last year, his previous rallies have been in Super 2000 cars
rather than full-spec WRC machines.
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