quoteKimi Raikkonen only managed 11 laps on his way to setting the sixth fastest time of 1.17.401. On his Supersoft run, he touched the barrier at Ste. Devote puncturing the left rear tyre.
I just woke up, could someone please explain to me what happened?
It seems he only has a broken rim, no bodywork needed. So I'm glad he shook his bad luck in practice, now it's time for the Iceman to focus in quali.
quoteRetweeted F1 Madness (@F1_Madness): Kimi reports touching the wall at the entry to the tunnel after losing the rear of the car due to a lack of grip.
Kimi Raikkonen Space:
quoteRetweeted Gianlu D'Alessandro (@Gianlu_DAle): Arrivabene: "Sebastian has done a good job. Kimi was in the traffic during his lap, but he could do much more..."
How? if Ferrari had not taken Kimi out behind Sainz?
Quote: Bradamante wrote in post #41https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbnlvOnkh1Q&feature=youtu.be
Grazie mile Tania, it has much more sense than the other version.
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quoteKimi Raikkonen says Monaco GP F1 qualifying was “a disaster”
Ferrari Formula 1 driver Kimi Raikkonen said his Monaco Grand Prix qualifying was a “disaster” as his disappointing form over one lap this season continued.
The Finn has struggled to put together a tidy lap in qualifying this year and he is the only driver in 2015 to have not out-qualified his team-mate at least once.
Raikkonen will start Sunday’s race from sixth, having finished 1.3s off pole and six tenths adrift of team-mate Sebastian Vettel, who starts third.
“It was a bad result in the end as it’s difficult to overtake here,” said Raikkonen. “It’s not a very happy day.
“It’s going to be a long race if I’m stuck behind some cars, but I’ll try to get the maximum out of it.
“We had no grip on the first set [for the first run]. The second run felt normal but I had traffic.
“It was a disaster. The car felt OK but it was difficult to get heat in the tyres.”
Raikkonen hit the wall at Ste Devote in third practice but he insisted that had no impact on his performance in qualifying.
However, he said the team must get to the bottom of his qualifying struggles because it is making life in the race more difficult than it needs to be.
“We seem to manage to get it wrong every race,” he said. “We have to work on something to try and improve it.
“We don’t put ourselves in very good position for Sunday.
“It makes our races difficult when you start behind because you spend time trying to get past cars and then you drop out the fight in front.”
Ferrari looked strong in final practice, with Vettel topping the timesheets, but the temperatures dropped before qualifying which hindered the Scuderia.
But despite failing to prevent a Mercedes front row lock-out, Vettel is hopeful the team will be closer in the race.
“With higher temperatures, it could have been closer,” said Vettel.
“As it stands, we were quite far away again but tomorrow, we should be a bit closer.
“We have not been able to do long runs, no one has, but the car feels good round here.
“The start will be important. I’m starting on the inside so it gives me the possibility of a good start.”
I guess if he knew the reason, he would do something about it
quote#Kimi: “I don’t think that the accident of this morning affected my qualifying. My car has been working pretty well so far, apart from the fact that it was hard to get the tires working . You need few good laps to make a time and today in my last run I was too slow behind a Toro Rosso and decided to come in.
Today we had the speed but not the chance of doing a clean lap. It was not a very good day and obviously tomorrow we are going to pay a big price. Tomorrow we’ll see what we can do, we’ll try to make a good start and go from there, even if it won’t be easy.
Here there is a big chance to remain stuck behind other cars for the whole race and overtaking is really difficult: that’s why the result of today is very disappointing.” www.ferrari.com
Let's hope for a warmer day tomorrow, so Kimi can do his usually-better-race-pace and hopefully a better result in the end. Hey, it's Monaco, you never really know what will happen.
Quote: jpp47 wrote in post #43Why Vettel CAN do it and not Kimi ? (or should I say no longer)
That's exactly how I feel JPP.
I'm Starting to get frustrated with Kimi on Saturday. He really needs to figure something out quickly because he is not maximizing his results. Vettel Said in the press conference that he could have gone quicker than his fastest time, so that's an even greater margin Kimi lost to seb. He got too close to the car in front for his final flying lap and ruined his qualifying. He's better than this