Footage from Finnish television channel MTV3 reviewing Kimi Räikkönen’s first day of driving the Citroen WRC C4 competitively on the 2010 Arctic Lapland Rally.

It was an eventful rally induction for the former F1 star after he went off on the second stage following a misheard pacenote. Raikkonen incurred a penalty as a result of the time lost in the accident, but just managed to stay in the rally and was able to complete the rest of the day’s stages.

Raiikonen’s co-driver Kaj Lindstrom said: “We went off the road and lost some minutes in the stage and then some penalties for arriving late.”

Commenting to MTV3, Raikkonen explained: “I heard the note wrong and we drove into the snow bank because of it. There was a tree, about as thick as a leg, and we went through it.

“These things happen. That’s why we came here, so that we could screw up everything that can be screwed up and learn from that. We also want to prevent the same mistakes from happening in the upcoming rallies.”

The Finn subsequently finished second to Citroen team-mate Dani Sordo on three of the four remaining stages but is more than 30 minutes behind in the overall standings.

Sordo leads the rally by 1m  3.7s from Juha Salo after the first day (6 of 12 stages)

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Via | RallyBuzz