I know the team hopes that we could make it through German Rally without mistakes. It's the season's second tarmac rally and our ride should be enough for us to reach quite good results.
I had drove in Jyskälä once before. From now on this season's remaining rallies are all completely new places to me.
Even though Germany is once again a completely new rally for me it still feels cool to get back on tarmac. Bulgaria was mostly promising but it doesn't help one bit now. This is a completely different rally. In Germany they drive a lot on concrete instead of on tarmac and from what I've heard it's a damn slippery road.
There's been talk about the notes every time, about how important they are and how difficult it is to learn them. I don't need anyone highlighting to me how noting would has to succeed really well in this rally and how I have to be extra careful with it.
I'm sure that the really long stage that I haven't drove with a rally car ever before is going to be pretty cool. It's about 50 km long and when you take the stages twice it will be an enormous amount of all the SS-kilometers.
It might get quite hot inside the cockpit and you know that the experience the top dudes have will only shine through better than before.
It's a clear thing that it is a place where it's important to drive without making mistakes. You can win or lose really big time.
We tested a couple of times in Germany. The car worked, everything went well and we found new setups again.
From the formula-times Germany isn't a place for me that I would like to remember. Something always went wrong.
Now we take off with a rally car and without those strains. The most important thing is to drive the race from the beginning to the end in a clean way. That is my number one wish and it's great if it happens. We need badly more kilometers in our meter so that we can get more experience which is what we need the most at this stage. After Jyskälä we had time to chill out. We rode trial, played golf and trained every day.
Now we are ready. We will see on Sunday how it went for us.
Source: Kimiraikkonen.com
Courtesy: Nicole
