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Kimi
Raikkonen has admitted his result from this week's Rally of
Portugal is not important to him, as he's more interested in
getting to the end of the Faro-based event.
Raikkonen
missed the last round of the championship in New Zealand, but will
now contest every rally until the end of the season. The only
rally where he has any previous experience is his home event,
Rally Finland.
"It's
fair to say that everything is completely new to me," said
the former Formula 1 world champion. "I've been testing in
France, but it's not the same as being in competition. The other
drivers have been to New Zealand - which wasn't on my programme -
and they also know the Rally of Portugal well, so it's not going
to be easy for us. That doesn't really bother me though, as I am
here to learn more than anything else. The final result at the end
of the rally doesn't matter to me really: it's all about how much
information I can take away for the future. We're just continuing
our improvement step by step."
Raikkonen
collected his best ever result on the Rally of Turkey last month,
when he finished fifth in his Citroen Junior Team C4 WRC.
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