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Austin, Texas – Kimi Raikkonen is not ruling a second round in NASCAR.
Raikkonen, who has yet to make the podium with Scuderia Ferrari this season, made two starts for Kyle Busch Motorsports in a truck and a Nationwide Series car in 2011.
The Finn, who turned 35 earlier this month said a return to stock cars is not out of the question once he steps away from Formula One.
“I was very pleasantly surprised with how nice and how fun it was,” Raikkonen said. “It’s not easy – like any competitive motorsport. I really enjoyed the time. Hopefully, I can do more of those and hopefully in the future some Sprint Cup.
“We’ll see.”
A second chance
Raikkonen dabbled in NASCAR during a two-year hiatus from F1. In his two starts, Raikkonen’s best finish was 15th in a Toyota truck with KBM.
While Raikkonen appreciates the challenge involved with NASCAR racing, he would want more seat time to elevate his game before he returns.
“I would like to learn it more,” Raikkonen said. “Like I said, it looks very easy but it’s not easy. When you look at each circuit, it just looks like an oval, but every corner is different. When you have knowledge of the sport you can run much stronger.
“I would like to have a good, proper run at it and try to learn and make good results out of it. It’s a different atmosphere, a different way of doing things than F1 or in the Rally but I really enjoyed it.”
All work and no play
Raikkonen was a guest of his sponsor Shell earlier on Thursday. He competed in an exhibition race with his current teammate Fernando Alonso driving Eco-cars prepared by students from Lousiana Tech University.
When asked about his relationship with Sebastian Vettle, who is expected to replace Alonso next season at Ferrari, Raikkonen replied, “It’s good.”
“We’ll have to see what happens next year,” he added.
quoteReason why Kimi's car isn't working well is that tyres are too far from each other. Inch or two front tyres back will make the difference. And front tyres have to be inch closer too.
Who said that? I dont think it is such a type of matter. The tyres of a car could be at a different place, or at the same place and the car could still handle differently, it depends on a lot of different factors. It might be one small factor, or might not be a factor at all.
I think Kimi can cope with a certain amount of factors not working perfectly for him, but this Ferrari just has to many of these small things that work against him, and some of these design ideas have been in the car for a very long time, it is difficult to change or to compensate for them completely. My hope is that the direction of the car design would change a bit for next year with Allison involved.
quoteF1 - Raikkonen: We have to believe "You don’t really know until you get the car on the circuit"
It was here in 2007 that Kimi Raikkonen won the World Championship with Ferrari, but today in his media session he reflected on a somewhat less successful year.
“Every season when you don’t win the championship, you can more or less forget it,” said the straight-talking Finn. “You are here to win races and championships and if you don’t manage it you have failed, whether you are second or twentieth. It’s been a hard year but we have learned things that will help us in future. But it’s not much fun when you have difficulties race after race. That’s how it goes sometimes in Formula 1, but we have to believe in what we do and I’m sure we can get back to where we should be. During this year, we improved a lot on the engine and electronics side and for sure the car has got more downforce now. It’s a much better car than it was at the beginning of the year.”
So would next year’s car fix the problem? “I’ve seen numbers from it and so on, but it’s the same story every year; you don’t really know until you get the car on the circuit,” replied the Scuderia Ferrari driver. “They started very early on the design of next year’s car and the designers listened to us and made some changes to try and improve in areas where we feel this year’s car has been lacking in performance. I believe we can have a much better car and a much better package. How good? We will know in February next year.”
Raikkonen then went on to explain exactly why he does not get on with the F14 Ts tendency to understeer in corners. “Since go-karts, if the front end doesn’t turn in and bite, I have never liked it. My driving style is more to try and carry the speed in the corners, keeping the speed mid corner. That’s the way I’m used to doing it and obviously I change my style a little every year. I believe that is the fastest way for me and if I can’t put the car where I want and brake the way I want because of locking wheels or sliding from the front, then it’s going to become a guessing game and if you miss the line through one corner then you miss it through the next ones. It sounds a small thing, but over a lap it becomes quite a big deficit.”
quoteYes, indeed (Kimi will stay). I don’t want to talk about individual, we need to talk about one team and definitely whole team did not perform at the best and driver like Kimi that we had first year driving here, we had a lot of problems, structural problems that didn't allow him adapt to the car but Kimi brings great experience, extremely talented driver, well respected by his colleagues and people working with him. So he is an asset. It's up to me and to us at Ferrari to make sure that we can capitalize in someone who last year had a phenomenal championship. I don't think that 5 months can change a driver. We talk daily, discuss, he is very much motivated and brings value because he knows the ingredients to succeed. And by the way he brought the last championship to Ferrari.
quote Kimi Raikkonen Q&A: It’s just been a bad season 06 Nov 2014
Kimi Raikkonen’s return to Ferrari for 2014 was meant to be his ticket back to the bigtime. It hasn’t quite panned out that way. Raikkonen has yet to see the podium, has been out-scored by his team mate three to one, and languishes a lowly 12th in the driver standings. Surely things can only get better for the Finnish former champion? We spoke to Raikkonen in Brazil to find out…
Q: Kimi, can you sum up your 2014 season with Ferrari, the team with whom you previously won the world title? Was it the homecoming you had hoped for? Kimi Raikkonen: Obviously - and everybody can see this - it hasn’t been an all too good season for me - and not for the team either. As Ferrari you expect to be at the front - and it hasn’t been the case. It’s been hard - but that’s the way it sometimes goes.
Q: But at least you like the colour red? KR: Ha, yes, I’ve made the right choice to come here if that is what you mean. Sometimes you have a difficult year, but I am sure that Ferrari can turn it around next season.
Q: Are you surprised that after so many years with Fernando Alonso at the team, you are still the last champion that Ferrari had. That was 2007… KR: Obviously we did things right back then…
Q: But then things didn’t go right for many years… KR: …I wasn’t here so you’d have to ask somebody who was here to get an answer as to why. I am here this year - and it didn’t go well - but for the future we do have the right people and a good team, so things will turn around.
Q: So is it still a good feeling having your name in the Ferrari history books as their last world champion? KR: Yes, sure. It is better [to have] one here than five with another team. It is the right place to be and even if 2014 was not so good, it is still Ferrari!
Q: There has been a lot of talk about Felipe Massa’s quote that Fernando has ‘out-psyched’ you. Is it possible to out-psyche Kimi Raikkonen? KR: Everybody has his opinion and Felipe can say what he wants. It’s just been a bad season. That’s it. No ‘psyching’ or whatever… just a bad season.
Q: Right now Ferrari reportedly have three drivers with valid contracts for 2015 - three heavyweight drivers. Does this mean Ferrari will be the first team to do car sharing? KR: Ask Ferrari what is going to happen. I won’t say anything about the situation.
Q: Are you sure that you will be racing next season? One hundred percent sure? KR: Yes, I am sure. And what is one hundred percent sure here? Nothing.
Q: The 2014 changes had quite an impact on the drivers. Everyone remembers your famous words of ‘leave me alone’ on the team radio at Lotus. Is such an approach still possible today when the pit wall is an integral part of the cockpit? KR: Ah, in reality it is not so much different than before 2014. Yes, the cars are different and my guess is that it was pretty difficult for teams to build these new cars - and here things didn’t quite go as well as we had hoped. That is the main difference.
Q: But could you utter those words this season and still have a good race, given all the information you need from the pit wall? KR: The tyres are pretty much the same issue they’ve always been, but yes, it’s been trickier this year. We’ve always talked on the radio, so there is not too much difference.
Q: So do you like the 2014 changes? KR: It is different, yes - and whether you like them or not doesn’t make any difference. These are the rules and you have to swallow it. Racing hasn’t changed much - the sound is different.
Q: What do you Ferrari have up their sleeves in order to do better in 2015? KR: They have hired new people. Maybe they made some mistakes when they started to design the 2014 car and maybe they haven’t got the best out of the rules, but we have plenty of good people who are able to turn things around. We will get there again. Unfortunately not in 2014.
Q: Believe all the media reports and you will be racing alongside Sebastian Vettel next season. The two of you get along pretty well… KR: Until something is announced I am not interesting in talking about possible team mates. He is a good, straightforward guy.
Q: But it is fact that you and Sebastian get along very well - privately… KR: He is the best out of any of the drivers. I know him the most. But as to what is happening in terms of driver line-up, you won’t get any answers from me.
Q: There are still two races to go. Can these races reconcile you with 2014? KR: For sure not. It’s been a difficult year - but I will do my best in the last two races.
Q: What would make you happy on Sunday? KR: A reasonably good race would be nice. If we get a podium it would be nice.
Q: So are you expecting your first podium of 2014 at one of the last two races? KR: Not expecting, but it would be nice!
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