Arctic Lapland Rally 2009

F1 Ace Kimi Räikkönen and former finnish F1 drivers Mika Häkkinen, Mika Salo and J.J. Lehto are competiting in the Arctic Lapland Rally. After 6 stages JJ Lehto, is 13th and 2min 28sec behind the leader, a Subaru driver Ketomaa. Räikkönen is 16th about 3.5 minutes behind the leader. Mika Salo is 20th, 4.35 behind the leader and Mika Häkkinen is 23th, 5.48 behind.

At the closing stage of the day Kimi, who is driving his first ever rally with Fiat Punto Abarth (sport 2000), was only 0.4 seconds slower than the fastest guy, kudos to Kimi!

KERS better than expected for Ferrari

Even though just a few weeks ago Ferrari were doubting the development of their KERS system, the Italian team is now feeling much more upbeat and admits to much progress over the winter break. The Scuderia have been testing at Mugello all week long, and have had the new system in place and functioning. Both Kimi Raikkonen and his former race engineer, Chris Dyer, were present at the Tuscan circuit while testing the new F60.

"Both days we had positive results with the KERS. The system works well like every other new part of the car," Raikkonen told Italian newspaper 'Gazzetta dello Sport'.While now chief engineer for the team, Dyer also had positive remarks about the system, "I'm not saying every lap, as the drivers maybe want, but we make use of it fairly often to study its safety. It's an interesting thing, a challenge from a technical point of view."

Source: F1 Technical