WRC: Kimi Raikkonen insists 'no interest' in F1 return

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From GMM

Kimi Raikkonen sounds less enthusiastic than ever about the idea of returning to formula one.

The 2007 world champion, who switched full-time to the world rally championship when Ferrari replaced him with Fernando Alonso for last season, was considered a leading contender for a return to the grid in 2011 with Renault.

He was again a candidate after Robert Kubica's horror rally crash, but 31-year-old Raikkonen was already setting up his own rally entry called Ice1 before he finished a promising eighth in the opening event in Sweden earlier this month.

"I have no interest in returning to formula one. I do not want to talk about formula one. Rallying is where I want to be. And it is good to be back for another season," he is quoted as saying by Gulf News.