ヘイキ・クルタのキミ＆ラップランドラリー記事まとめ
キミと親しいことで知られている、フィンランドのF1ジャーナリスト、ヘイキ・クルタ氏。 Turun Sanomat紙（通称TS）にクルタさんの記事が立て続けに載ってます。
Nicoleがキミ公式サイトのフォーラムに、英訳を次々と載せてくれてますよ～。
ありがとう、Nicole！！
しかし、私、本日から週末にかけて忙しくて、日本語に訳す時間がありません。よよよ。
というわけで、英語のまま載せておきます。
■ソルドはキミに「WRCのペース」を見せるだろう
SORDO WILL SHOW THE WRC-PACE TO KIMI
Turun Sanomat 28.1 2010 17:42:18Tunturi-ralli’s – or more EU-wise Arctic Lapland Rally – feelings are more higher than usual at the eve of the rally. Daniel Sordo and Kimi Räikkönen will participate in the traditional national rally as outsiders and attract a huge international interest.
– The world will go crazy over this, rally-boss Heikki Poranen sums it up.
Wednesday’s snow storm put all the organisers against the wall. Yet Räikkönen and Kaj Lindström managed to finish their note work.Just like last year all possible accomodation was sold out already in the beginning of December. Last year there were over 10 000 spectators.
Räikkönen’s first official rally as a rally driver is something that interests all motorsport-quarters.
Räikkönen and Lindström had a chance to test Citroen’s C4 WRC-cannon for three days and they drove all and all about 400 km.– Of course there aren’t too many tests for Kimi at this point of his career. We got a positive feeling about them. We learned a lot about the car and saw how the setups work. We got it so that it fit Kimi’s hand and that was the main thing, Lindström said.
Räikkönen started with Sebastien Loeb’s basic setups for Norway’s rally in 2008 and he took it from there to the direction he wanted.
– Tunturi-rally is only a test for Sweden. The reason why we wanted to go to Tunturi was that we could test how much more we can perform with this car compared to last year’s Fiat in the same place, Lindström told.
F1- and rally-tests have a different way of thinking
– The tests were always good in rally but the race itself will educate you in a completely different way. The way we think in rally is completely different from the way they think in F1. In F1 you learn by testing and practising the track’s every single corner in a certain way. In rally you have to look for a compromise in testing so that it will work properly in different places and conditions.
Driving with Sordo will offer Räikkönen a challenging comparison.
– Sordo’s pace will show the speed you have in WRC. Dani is usually 3rd when two guys are going even faster. It’s important for us to get driving experience. In rally we climb up these stairs slowly but when we put our helmets on we will always do our best.That guy sure knows how to drive
Lindström knows best what kind of a steering wheel -man Räikkönen is in a rally car.
– That guy sure knows how to drive a car. When you have drove F1 with the powers Kimi has, these WRC-cars’ 350 horsepowers aren’t from a that different world. That won’t be a problem. But when you can’t remember every place in rally you have to make pace notes and drive according to them.So first Kimi has to
a) learn
b) understand
c) drive according to the notes.– Kimi will do it well but he still has to find that 100% trust before the job works completely, Lindström summed up.
Turun Sanomat, Rovaniemi
HEIKKI KULTA
■ラリードライビングは、キミの勝利願望に取って代わった
（※経験豊富なドライバーがたくさんいるから、今年勝てるとはまったくキミは思っていない、ということです）
DRIVING RALLY REPLACES KIMI’s WILL TO WIN
Turun Sanomat 28.1 2010 22:52:25Kimi Räikkönen’s debut with Red Bull-Citroen’s WRC-car has attracted 170 media-people to Rovaniemi. As many as there were when Ferrari and McLaren presented their cars this week.
On Thursday night Räikkönen spent over an hour interviewed first by the tv- and after that by the press-people.
In F1 you said that you will always drive for victory? Is it possible this year in rally?
– No and that’s for sure. There are pretty tough drivers out there and they have raced for many years the same rallies. They remember quite a lot from the stages and know what to do where. Like I said, you have to learn a lot before you get experience and can start improving your pace, Räikkönen knows.So this new challenge with a WRC-car will replace his will to win this season.
What kind of expectations do you have from Sweden’s rally?
– Everything is new to me so first of all I have to be patient. It’s difficult to say what to expect when I haven’t raced with this car. We’ll see in Sweden how it goes. It’s useless to say anything beforehand when there are so many things that can go wrong, Räikkönen said.Sordo can’t afford to lose
On Thursday Räikkönen got some comparison to Daniel Sordo’s times when the duo drove the same stages with the same cars.
– Tunturi-rally is just a practice for Sweden. It’s difficult to say how it goes here either. I have so much to learn in many things so the result doesn’t mean anything to me in this race. You will see our pace in Sweden.
Sordo has drove in even colder conditions in Norways. Tunturi is his 6th snow rally. How badly will it hurt if the 3rd overall in WRC would lose to Räikkönen right from the beginning?– Kimi is undoubtly fast but we try to go faster. If Kimi is faster it’s not a good thing for me, Sordo thought.
There will be enough testing
Räikkönen had time to test for three days with Citroen before the races start. If there is need for it, can you test as much as you want?
– Of course there are some limitations. It depends on so many things, what kind of contracts who has and who pays what. I’m not even sure what the regulations say but I think you can test pretty freely in WRC. Other teams test, others don’t, Räikkönen said.Räikkönen denied many times the claims that he wouldn’t have been motivated in F1-tests.
– Everyone can have their own view even if I wouldn’t even know about the whole thing. The truth is that I have never had anything against any test where you try new parts and new things. It’s a different thing if you just drive 600 km per day just to try if the car can take it without breaking.Brothers as competitors
Big brother Rami Räikkönen will drive in Tunturi in Kimi’s old car Fiat Abarth Grande Punto. Now the brothers compete on rally paths for the first time.
– It’s still my car but when Rami wanted to try rally and has been doing it for a longer time as a hobby I thought why not?Own pace notes to polish
So at what stage will the widely discussed Räikkönen’s practice to make pace notes take place? How much do you trust the notes Kaj Lindström gives you?
– I trust in them because I have made them myself. There are many things. Of course I trust what Kaitsu says when I have made them myself and he has so much experience that if I would have made them totally senseless, he would have mentioned about it already when we made them. There won’t be that kind of a mistake. It’s more about the driver listening properly to the notes so that he doesn’t make an error because of not listening.– There is a lot to learn so that you can make good notes in a good place and precisely understand how fast you can drive there. Easily it goes so that if you can’t describe it well enough it means that you can’t drive as fast as you should.
A year in rally is not an obstacle for coming back to F1
Did you look at Ferrari’s new F-10 -car from internet?
– I have seen the car. It’s hard to say anything based upon pictures. I guess they will start testing it next week. You see it then. It looked a lot like it looked last year ago too. Nothing terribly different, Räikkönen summed up.Do you still have a burn for a comeback to F1?
– I have no contract with anyone for year 2011. Of course a lot depends on what happens and where. I guess I have a long year ahead of me and you can never know what is going to happen.
Will this year be wasted if you decide to go back to F1?– It’s not wasted in any way. I always do my best. In the final games this was the best option of all options for this year. That’s why I drive rally now.
Turun Sanomat, Rovaniemi
HEIKKI KULTA
カイによる、キミがやらなければいけないことリスト。
a)学習
b)理解
c)ペースノートによる運転
去年、北極圏ラップランドラリーで初ラリーを経験したときは、マキネンがいうに「キミはペースノートを作ることすらできなかった」そうだし。ラリー・フィンランドで道を間違えたときも、石にぶつかって横転してリタイヤしたときも、キミは自分の目で運転していて、ノートを聞いていなかったと言ってました。
そこが、ラリーとF1の大きな違いで、キミが慣れなきゃいけないことなのでしょうね。
■ラップランドのマジック
LAPLAND’s MAGIC
Turun Sanomat 28.1 2010 22:46:15For long they have written Iceman-stories about Kimi Räikkönen during his F1-career.
On Thursday the reporters making these stories became at once real Icemen. At least it seemed that way when I was frozen from my cheeks up while standing in the snowbanks up to my knees in a windy -20 degrees just waiting to see a glimpse of Räikkönen’s Red Bull-Citroen when he tested on the test-stage in Vennivaara.Like Unto Mononen said, Lapland’s nature still creates a strange magic. When Räikkönen left to WRC-rally challenges he vacuumed like magic the international media from all over the world to the Arctic Lapland. The organisers are counting that there’s even more foreign reporters than there are Finnish reporters. The furthest stories will travel from Rovaniemi all the way to New Zealand.
It’s a long way from Vennivaara’s forest to Ferrari’s home in Maranello. They arranged almost at the same time with the National Finland Rally their biggest celebration when Ferrari presented their new F10-car to the wide media-people.
According to the original transcript Räikkönen should have been on Thursday in Maranello in that presentation because he had a signed contract of this year in Ferrari in his pocket.
After the contract was broken in September Räikkönen hasn’t given even a thought to Ferrari’s future.
If F10 is a successful car, Kimi got at least a feather in his hat for keeping during the prolonged designing time the sharpened axes of criticism buried and drove a victory and a few other good results for Ferrari during the endseason.It would be Lapland’s magic if Räikkönen could on Friday and Saturday challenge Dani Sordo immediately. Sordo has taken his place in WRC in the top 3.
Sordo will have to go first to the first stage and Räikkönen gets to drive beside the snowbanks with the ideal starting number 3.
Rovaniemi/Heikki Kulta
28日だけで3本も！
そして、クルタさん、記事を書くだけでは飽きたらず、写真もUPしてくれてます。
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