quoteKimi Raikkonen and Ferrari 'can avoid' problem behind Canada spin
By Glenn Freeman Thursday, June 18th 2015, 13:11 GMT
Kimi Raikkonen believes Ferrari can avoid a repeat of the problem that caused him to spin in the Canadian Grand Prix, even though Formula 1's rules limit the team's options.
The 2007 world champion spun on an out-lap after a pitstop at the Montreal hairpin in the Canadian GP, when he was caught out by the engine settings his car was still running as a result of his stop.
While Raikkonen believes he and Ferrari can now make allowances for what happened in Canada, the FIA's rules on how engine settings can be changed after a car makes a launch (at the start or after a pitstop) means there is always a risk of something similar happening again.
"It was a freak accident, but that's part of the game, and I'm sure we can avoid it," Raikkonen said in the Red Bull Ring paddock on Thursday.
"There are some rules when you do starts, and after the pitstops, there's an FIA lockout that lasts a certain time.
"It doesn't matter when you switch [the engine mode] off it still takes 90 seconds - it's a normal thing on a race weekend.
"You cannot change that, but we have settings we can work on, and knowing what can happen we can try to avoid it.
"We know what caused it and we will do the best we can to minimise that risk.
"The rules limit what you can do, but we know certain corners, at certain circuits, there might be a chance [of a repeat], so we know to do it differently."
Raikkonen added the Montreal spin was the first time he had suffered the problem with the 2015 Ferrari.
"It hasn't happened at all this year - never in testing or practice - the first time it happened was in the race," he said.
"Unfortunately on that circuit in those conditions it happened, and I spun because of it."
Thanks Andrea for the entertaining and complete report of FP1
From KRS:
Mixed fortunes for the Scuderia Ferrari drivers in the first free practice session for the Austrian Grand Prix, eighth round of the World Championship here at the Red Bull Ring.
Kimi Raikkonen had a trouble-free time, finishing third fastest with a 1.11.028, while Sebastian Vettel was sidelined after just four laps, with a transmission problem. Fastest was Nico Rosberg, who posted a 1.10.401 ahead of his Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton (1.10.709.) [via ferrari.com]
quotetrack has a different layout from the last one we raced on in Montreal, and the conditions are different; tomorrow we’ll be on track and see where we are. The weather, as we saw in the last race, can play a big role if the conditions keep changing is not ideal and it can limit our running, but let’s wait and see. The result we had in Canada was not a disaster, but obviously we want to do better; the upgraded engine worked as we expected but, as package goes, we are still lacking the speed needed to compete with the Mercedes. Overall we have improved a lot from last year and even during this year, but the other teams are also improving. We know where we want to be, the team is going in the right direction but we know that we cannot change things from one day to the other. So we keep doing our best.” [via ferrari.com]
Practice two In the second free practice session for the Austrian Grand Prix, the team concentrated on long runs looking ahead to the race. The weather forecast for Sunday is currently very different to the conditions expected for qualifying and this means it will be very complicated to select the best set-up, but the team acquired a lot of useful data. Come the end of this afternoon’s 90 minute session, Sebastian Vettel was fastest with a 1.09.600. He stopped running 15 minutes before the end so the team could carry out some checks on his car. Behind the German came Nico Rosberg, who did a 1.09.611 in the Mercedes, while in the other SF15-T, Kimi Raikkonen was third with a 1.09.860. [via ferrari.com]
FP2 Times:
Pos Driver Car Time Gap Laps 1 Sebastian Vettel Ferrari 1m09.600s – 28 2 Nico Rosberg Mercedes 1m09.611s 0.011s 50 3 Kimi Raikkonen Ferrari 1m09.860s 0.260s 41 4 Pastor Maldonado Lotus/Mercedes 1m09.914s 0.314s 44 5 Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 1m10.137s 0.537s 49 6 Nico Hulkenberg Force India/Mercedes 1m10.160s 0.560s 49 7 Romain Grosjean Lotus/Mercedes 1m10.267s 0.667s 38 8 Max Verstappen Toro Rosso/Renault 1m10.356s 0.756s 48 9 Felipe Nasr Sauber/Ferrari 1m10.495s 0.895s 39 10 Sergio Perez Force India/Mercedes
At least he'll gain some places from others' penalties and will have more new tyres, but this is not Canada and there's not much chance to overtake here, so like I said, let's just eachother
quoteKimiRäikkönenSpace retweeted Badger GP 23m23 minutes ago Badger GP @BadgerGP So far we know we have Button starting from Woking, Alonso from Dover and Ricciardo from Vienna. As for Kimi, well he doesn't know.
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Thu Jun 18, 2015 6:04 pm
Its crazy. When you see him "live" you want to feed him- so skinny.... 
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eachother, there's not much else to do
