POOR SEASON HAS HARDENED THE WHOLE TEAM OF RÄIKKÖNEN
The whole team that is busy around Kimis car succeeded well in Belgian gp. As the race strategy hit the nail the result was at best the fourth place. At the beginning of the season Räikkönen got a new race engineer Antonio Spagnolo who has had a tough learning curve by side Räikkönen. In a few races in the radio were David Lloyd but the last two races the responsibility has been on Spagnolo. - Antonio is a nice and smart fellow, I know him from the past but in different job. In race you have to do the desicions quickly, when you are a rookie, its not an easy job, even if you have watched how to do it. I wouldnt do it with this experience if I was there at the wall doing desicions. When you begin to be used to it, things get easier and Antonio has been tons of better than in the beginning of the season. I guess it would have been easier with Stella but I dont think it would have made any difference. It was good Lloyd was helping us, Antonio could concentrate to where he is at his best. Another engineer is not a new thing on my career, even Mark Slade was nervous sometimes when he had to make quick desicions, so we had another guy on radio so that Mark could make desicions in peace without talking to me at the same time. Likewise I belive this was good arrangement for us. Kimi said.
They gave Kimi the optimal strategy because they anticipated Alonso's penalty, don't think it's upto Spagnolo to decide.... but I can tell Spagnolo seems to be much more confident now compare to beginning of the season.
Just hope Ferrari are capable of giving both drivers good strategies in the future.
quoteMaranello - Scuderia Ferrari is traveling to the Netherlands, where this year they'll take part in VKV Rotterdam City Racing event on Sunday in the city that lies on the banks of the river Nieuwe Maas bringing different players of the world of motorsport. Representing the team from Maranello - says the Prancing Horse's website - will be Kimi Raikkonen, which will drive along a path created in the streets of the center, between the bridge and the roundabout Willemsburg Hofplein. The Scuderia Ferrari is the sponsor of the event, and Banco Santander, which is also a sponsor of Formula 1 team.
HOLLAND - After the Street Demo in South Africa earlier this year and participation in the Moscow City Racing event, Rotterdam, featuring the Scuderia Ferrari, is another opportunity to bring Formula 1 in the midst of people, in countries that are not the destination of a Grand Prix of the Maximum Category. In the Netherlands, Formula 1 is missing in fact since 1985, and last year the event drew along half a million spectators to the Rotterdam street circuit.
ON TRACK - Raikkonen will be driving a Ferrari F60 in 2009, chassis 276, with which the Finn began the Formula 1 season after the Drivers' parade, scheduled at 14, Kimi will be on track from 14:20 to 14:35 and then again from 15:45 to 16 Scuderia Ferrari will follow the event via their Twitter account, on which you can comment on pictures and highlights using the hashtag # FerrariRCR14.
this was posted a week ago at autosport forum. (only saw now because the thread there is a mess )
quoteHeikki Kulta from Turun Sanomat made a long interview with Kimi yesterday (it will probaply be released today or tomorrow) and he said Kimi is very motivated for the future, and he trust that Ferrari will offer a better car for him and Alonso next year. Also Kimi said that he has never thought about retiring and has never said when does his Ferrari contract ends.
quoteKimi was interviewed long yesterday privately by Heikki Kulta:
about this year: Winter testing revealed that it will be a difficult season ahead
Räikkönen noticed already during winter testing that this years Ferrari has has lots of fauls, developing started immediately, but unfortunately every step forward needs a lot of time.
- car wasn´t bad for example malaysia where I had good speed, but on the race I had a puncture and that was it. That got nothing to do with car not working. It has always gone like that, when ever the car has worked well for me, something else has gone wrong.
- at monaco I would have had a ok race, until I had a puncture. Last race at Hungary, I finally was able to drive the race like I wanted, but team messed up the qualifying and we had to start so far away.
- It would have been much easier, if I would have been able to drive fridays normally. But there might not be a single fridays, that we would have driven without problems....even yesterday, we lost electronics, ERS and everything went wrong.
Kimi´s back no more an issue
how is your back?
- It´s ok and it´s better than it has been in few years. It will never be fixed or as good that it was at the beginning of my career. There will always remain some problem on my back, but it doesn´t hurt anymore as the bulge doesn´t press the nerve anymore,
- These problems come with the time. Everykind of things have happened during the years of racing, it always hits to the back and it´s the best situation.
The big crash at silverstone didn´t feel at all on Kimi´s back.
- I noticed nothing on my back.
what about the spiritual wounds that this season has caused?
- This is nothing new to me, I knew already when I first sit on the car and noticed how the car was, that this will be a difficult season.
Sharper responding front end a number one wish
Technical principal James Allison has promised Ferrari a car, that will suit for both Kimi and Fernando´s driving styles.
- Car will change a lot to next year and it will surely work better, Kimi knows.
What do you want from the car, when you said many times that you can´t the feeling from it that you want?
- front end must be stronger, even if the rear end at the moment isn´t great either. The front end should be got to the like that it turns and would go where I want it to go. It´s now much better than it was at the start of the season, when it only slided and didn´t turn anywhere where I wanted it to turn.
a second gap to Alonso, has been noted heavily on the media a gross the world.
-There has to be only problem/mistake on one single corner and the gap comes from there, Kimi says.
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