With this headline breaking on 01 April, I wasn’t sure if this news was just another April Fools’ gag or not. Yet, pictures, press releases and videos have emerged since then of Kimi Raikkonen testing a Nascar truck.
The 2007 Formula 1 World Champion will start his first Nascar Camping World Truck Series race on 20 May at rhe Charlotte Motorsport Speedway.
His WRC team, ICE1 Racing, has offi cially registered for selected rounds of this series and he will be continuing his WRC campaign in 2011 in his Citroen DS3 WRC.
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