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Raikkonen enters under Ice 1 title
« on: January 15, 2011, 09:56:16 AM »
By Matt Beer and David Evans    Friday, January 14th 2011, 14:06 GMT

Kimi RaikkonenKimi Raikkonen's 2011 World Rally Championship programme will run under the Ice 1 Racing name, as Citroen moves away from the Citroen Junior banner for its satellite entries.

The 2007 Formula 1 world champion's entry for Rally Sweden in a new Citroen DS3 was finally confirmed earlier this week, and has been lodged under the new title.

Raikkonen's fellow privateer DS3 WRC driver Petter Solberg has yet to firm up his team name for the season. Solberg is expected to be entered for the season-opening Rally of Sweden by Citroen under his own Petter Solberg World Rally Team name, but his team manager Ken Rees admitted nothing was confirmed beyond round one.

"For Mexico [round two] we're not sure if we'll stay as the Petter Solberg World Rally Team or move into some sort of Citroen team, this has still to be agreed," he said.

Citroen team principal Olivier Quesnel is keen not to retain the Citroen Junior Team name which has been used for the last two years.

"We don't really need the Junior team name as we don't have any junior drivers coming through there, so it will be changed," Quesnel said.