2009 Rally Finland

So, they have actually mentioned Kimi, and shown him a few times. I'm hoping for an interview, but I'm guessing that's unlikely.

We'll have to settle for an interview with his co-driver. Kimi's co-driver is currently talking about the rally on the WRC coverage. And he sounds almost exactly like Kimi. Slightly more intelligible, but same sort of tone, accent, and enthusiasm. Its quite fantastic.

And we got an interview with Kimi, too! I'm happy with the coverage now.

And I'll take this opportunity to keep you up to date on Kimi's future. He's no longer racing for Ferrari in F1, now that Ferrari has bought him out of his contract for 2010, to bring enormous cockbag Fernando Alonso onto the team. Right now it looks like Kimi'll be taking a sabbatical from F1 for the 2010 season. And apparently, he has some personal sponsorship from Red Bull. Hopefully that means he'll return to F1 on the Red Bull Racing team in 2011, once Webber is no longer under contract. Ideally the team would then be Vettel and Kimi. Which would quite possibly be the awesomest F1 team in the history of time. Two extremely quick drivers who have their heads screwed on properly. And if we could some how figure out how to get Valentino Rossi involved somehow, and it would be the awesomest team in the history of motor racing. Hopefully Red Bull keeps creating such quick and pretty F1 cars... One option for Kimi is to go into the WRC for the 2010 season. We'll see what happens.

And apparently now Sebastian Vettel's showed up! Man, this is the greatest rally ever. Vettel was hanging around the Citroen garage, talking to World Champion Sebastian Loeb. Which makes some good sense, since Vettel drives for Red Bull Racing, and Red Bull seems to be one of the principle sponsors for the Citroen Rally Team.

I have come to the conclusion that rally car driving has got to be either fantastically terrifying or terrifyingly fantastic. Either or both.

And Norwegians are awesome as well. They've got awesome accents, and they're very expressive when they talk. If the Solberg brothers can be considered prototypical Norwegians. They're always enjoyable to watch whenever they show up in the coverage. Basically, it seems that Scandinavians are just plain awesome.

And Mads Ostberg just decided to randomly visit some random people that lived along the path of the rally. Or perhaps he took a wrong turn. I'm not sure.

And Kimi's rolled it. And even though it looks like he's just come out of the car, he's already wearing the red Ferrari F1 baseball cap. Which always looks slightly oversized. Although it is interesting to see the relatively large number of Ferrari red shirts and hats in the crowds watching the rally stages. I guess, if Kimi does go to the WRC, he'll have a good amount of followers. At least in Finland. And on this couch.

And now for a picture of Kimi and his hat. Plus bonus Sebastian Vettel! And extra bonus: Strange face by Kimi!