Räikkönen and Solberg in DS3 WRC

Kimi Räikkönen and Petter Solberg will be behind the wheel of a Citroën DS3 WRC, since the Rally from Sweden. If the Norwegian does not appear on the entry list finalized this Monday, the organizers of the first event of the 2011 WRC affirm that he will be present with a 4th DS3 WRC. Indeed, Sébastien Loeb et Sébastien Ogier will also be equipped with it? as well as Kimi Räikkönen.

The Finn, whose future has been up in the air for several months, will therefore continue in the World Rally Championship, as he had imagined for some time. Iceman will not be out of place by driving for the Ice 1 Racing team, which will allow him to continue in the WRC with one of the two best cars in the field.

In the Ford Fiesta WRC clan, there is no shortage of talented and experienced drivers. Mikko Hirvonen, Jari-Matti Latvala, Ken Block, Henning Solberg, Matthew Wilson and Dennis Kuippers will debut the new rally car developed by M-Sport, structure headed by Malcolm Wilson.

It is therefore a new Ford-Citroën clash which will begin next month in Sweden. In 2010, the Citroën C4 WRC clearly took the lead over the Ford Focus WRC, achieving numerous triples and quadruplets. But the change in regulations and the arrival of new cars will allow the counters to be reset to zero.