Source: KimiRaikkonen.com
Ruts, spins - and banks

瑞典站是爷参加的第一场WRC比赛，完赛了，达成目标了。

爷犯了很多不该犯的愚蠢的错误，这让爷损失很多。

瑞典站对车手要求很高，路上盖满了冰雪，如果你驶离了车辙就会很容易陷进松软的雪里，然后搞得车上都是雪让你看不清外面——于是你就装进雪花银行了……（雪花银行=snowbank=雪堆，喷笑）

这就是发生在爷身上的事情。因此爷不得不拿起铲子，开始把车子从雪花银行里挖出来。

不过这是你在拉力比赛中必须要经历的事情，爷知道现在的领先者们也有过铲雪的经历。

瑞典拉力的一切给了爷一个有趣的周末。在开始拉力时，我们有过期待也有着压力，但现在的感觉很好。（于是翻到这里我又人格分裂了……）

（中间略……我懒……）

下一站是墨西哥，这是爷第一场砾石路面的拉力，在此之前在法国有一天的测试时间。到了墨西哥，副驾驶Kaj头戴墨西哥阔边帽的样子肯定能让人兴奋不已。（我说，爷其实是你自己想戴吧orz）

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回眸一笑百媚生，六宫粉黛无颜色XD


这零下几十度的爬雪堆里铲雪……我心疼了TAT！！！


爷铲就铲了内蹦个啥？


爷内啥品味？红牛居然有这种囧囧有神的雷锋帽（？）还是八戒帽（？）……算了，考虑到这是在零下几十度的雪地里……

The Swedish Rally was my first world championship rally with WRC car. Well, we finished the rally in one piece. It was the target and it was the most positive thing to achieve from the weekend.

Obviously, I made a couple of silly mistakes that I could have lived without. We paid heavily for those and it badly hurt our result.

The Swedish Rally is a very demanding race. The roads are covered with snowy ice. If you come out of the ruts, there is soft snow and you spin easily. Then you get snow all over the car, cannot see anything – and so you hit the snow bank.

That’s what happened to us. We went there with walking speed, but stuck on the soft snow bank. Then I had to take the spade and start digging the car out of the snow.

Well, that’s one thing you have to experience in a rally. It’s normal and I know that those who now are the leaders, have had their share of shovelling, too. I guess, not even Sibelius started by composing the Finlandia first.

All in all the Swedish Rally offered us a very interesting weekend. Okay, perhaps we had some expectations and, for sure, the pressure was there, while we started the rally. It was difficult, but it feels good that it’s done now.

Every single mile I’ll get under my belt with this car is very important for me now. The more I’ll find the good feeling with the car, the better it goes. Even now from time to time I started to feel better and I got along with the car better and better.

While we do the stages for the second time, obviously, it helps and makes it a little bit easier.

After our “hiccups” in the beginning, we decided not to seek some better set-ups. We went to Sebastien Loeb’s set-up and started to learn to drive the car with it. I just focused on baseline driving and keeping the car on the road.

After getting used to how the car handled, it was easier – although the circumstances were changing all the time. At least, next time I know the car better and then we can ask more from the car, too.

It felt good to have some good times. For sure, I experienced once more how important it is to get the pace notes exactly right. When the note is ok, it’s so much easier to go fast. There were some places, my notes were wrong – and there we suffered the most.

I said already before going to Sweden, this rally on snow will be a very difficult race to start the season. Obviously, I have not done a single metre with this car on gravel or on asphalt, but I bet it’s not going to be more difficult, at the very least.

Now we focus on the next rally. It’s Mexico and it’s the first rally on gravel. We’ll have one day of testing with the car in France. Then it’s Viva la Mexico and it will thrilling to see my co-driver Kaj Lindstrom with a sombrero on.

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