Yahoo, we have a possibility to ask Kimi questions thanks to Mr. Kulta
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Aihe F1, 7.5.2013 21:51, heikki.kulta
Shared joy is a double joy... I have once again been given the opportunity for a private interview with Kimi Räikkönen during Barcelona GP. Since this blog has got requests about asking Kimi questions I can now offer the opportunity for my readers.
Please ask Kimi topical questions. The best questions getting the most out of the driver will be published on this blog in due time.
Like earlier we only concentrate on sport.
This offer goes to non-Finnish speaking readers, as well. If you want to present some topical questions for Kimi Räikkönen, so go ahead and present them to me on Friday this week the latest.
Hehe cool. Hope he gets asked some nice questions!
BTW Kimi´s boat "iceman" is already in Barcelona. Maybe he does some holidays in his boat like he did last year http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/shipde ... =319008500
Zitat von claudieHehe cool. Hope he gets asked some nice questions!
BTW Kimi´s boat "iceman" is already in Barcelona. Maybe he does some holidays in his boat like he did last year http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/shipde ... =319008500
Wow that is some excellent sleuthing skills.
Perhaps he would most likely be on a vacation right now or the week before the GP, sine he also has to open the Gumball rally next weekend, and the weekend after it will be the Monaco Gp.
ZitatKimi Raikkonen cannot escape talk of him leaving Lotus for Red Bull The Greta Garbo of Lotus wants to be alone but the questions over a possible F1 move next season keep on coming
Suddenly, everyone wants to speak to Kimi Raikkonen – even if it is with the knowledge that the conversation is likely to be exceedingly one-sided. Formula One's own Greta Garbo has made such a success of his comeback to Formula One – he was third in last year's championship with Lotus and is running second to Sebastian Vettel this season – that he is being linked with a move to Red Bull at the end of the season.
Dietrich Mateschitz, Red Bull's owner, has called him "cool and fast and always a candidate", giving fresh impetus to speculation that Mark Webber could be on his way out of the Milton Keynes-based team at the end of the year.
This week's departure of the highly regarded technical director, James Allison – on gardening leave before an expected move to Ferrari – has also increased the air of uncertainty around the Lotus camp before Sunday's Spanish Grand Prix, particularly regarding the future of their No1 driver. Whenever he is asked a question, the infamously reticent Raikkonen looks rather put out, as if you have just trespassed on his spiritual retreat, so his response to the speculation is hardly a surprise. "You keep asking me the same question but I have nothing to tell. I don't know," he says with a shrug. "Right now I'm purely putting my effort into this race and this year and when things happen, people will know. I have no idea what will happen and right now I'm not putting much thought into it because we have only had four races.
"There's a long season to go and there's a long time until next year. I have no contract for next year. There is talk about this and that. In the end I will make the decision at the right time. Things change quickly in Formula One. There might be a few options. I want to get the things right for me and get the things right for myself. I've been long enough in Formula One to know how important it is to get things as I want.
"I never make a plan. When you are in Formula One there is a point in your life when you want to do other stuff. There is not much time to do anything else. Just normal life, normal things."
This looks very much like the longest speech ever made by Raikkonen; in fact it is a sort of montage, a splicing together of his responses when inevitably asked questions about his future here this weekend.
The Finn, to put it mildly, does not like being interviewed. And it was largely understood to be the demands of media and sponsors that led him to leave F1 under something of a cloud in 2009. He appeared to have lost his hunger for the sport two years after his world championship success with Ferrari. However, he has another explanation. "I thought I drove very well in the Ferrari in 2009. The car was pretty shit. It was just a bad car, a bad year for making a really good result and fighting for the championship."
But in a sport well known for its lack of connection between stars and supporters does he still dislike media work and indulging sponsors? "I'm doing an interview right now," he says. "I've always said that I enjoy racing. That's the only reason I'm here. Nothing has changed in me. But I know how it comes. It comes with other things.
"That's the way it has always been in Formula One. You will never get the perfect thing without some other stuff coming with it. If you get what you want you always have to pay some price for it."
Raikkonen, 33, spent most of his two years out of F1 competing in the World Rally Championship, where his average results suggested, once again, that this was not the most driven of drivers. Certainly Lotus took a big gamble last year, especially after another former world champion, Michael Schumacher, had such a disappointing comeback.
"We had no real reference about drivers coming back in the modern era of F1, except Schumacher," says the Lotus team principal, Eric Boullier. "And on top of that Kim left Formula One being bored and upset. It was a gamble, the most important gamble for me."
Even Raikkonen admits he had his doubts. "I didn't really know what to expect when I did the first test but after that I knew that it would be fine because it felt normal. Most of my racing has been in Formula One but you always have doubts. How you are going to drive? But it always disappears."
Boullier is delighted with how his big signing has paid off. "There is no real weakness with Kimi, except his own character, when sometimes he can be upset with himself or with something which is minor, but which could affect his friendship with his close team people or with sponsors. Or with himself.
"Last year he built back his fitness for Formula One, as well as his speed, his understanding of tyres, of race weekend, of the team, of everything. This year he was race fit for winning from the start of the season in Melbourne."
It seems that Raikkonen is a happier figure away from the politics of Ferrari and the strong corporate ethos that existed at McLaren before that. Things are a little more relaxed at Lotus. Boullier says: "We are different, we are new – the complete opposite to some teams. We are not more clever than anyone else. We just do things a little different. Our image is fresh, young, active, dynamic and approachable."
Just be a little careful when you speak to Raikkonen. Even the Lotus team learned that in Abu Dhabi last year when the driver told them: "Just leave me alone, I know what I'm doing." And then, came an irritable "Yes, yes, yes, yes. I'm doing all the tyres. You don't have to remind me every second." He won the race.
Lotus, reminding everyone that they are a little different, placed his comments on Twitter and even made a T-shirt out of it, emblazoned: "Leave me alone, I know what I'm doing."
Indeed, Jenson Button, the champion of 2009, recognises in today's Raikkonen the man who won the title six years ago. "The last year with Ferrari I don't know whether his heart wasn't in it or whether he just wasn't happy," Button says. "He didn't seem as competitive. Now, he seems like the driver who won the world championship."
But could Raikkonen, the only driver to complete every race last year, become a victim of his own success? A return to one of the leading teams next year could also spell a reprise of the very pressures that drove him away in the first place.
It is something Red Bull, and Raikkonen, will be considering in the months ahead. Just don't expect Kimi to say much about it.
ZitatRaikkonen, 33, spent most of his two years out of F1 competing in the World Rally Championship, where his average results suggested, once again, that this was not the most driven of drivers. Certainly Lotus took a big gamble last year, especially after another former world champion, Michael Schumacher, had such a disappointing comeback.
i get so mad when i read such bs.....Kimi was average in rally because he was not driven? Aggggrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr " title="tantrum" />
ZitatAlso at the Circuit de Catalunya stands out: Kimi has an incredible number of fans. We're talking about a global phenomenon with a focus on Asia.
Kimi: "Obviously I am pleased to have many fans. Who would not want? But to be honest, I have no idea why people like me. "
Surveys in the paddocks of GP2 and GP3 also show - the most junior pilots say Raikkonen, when it comes to name a cool role model.
"Iceman" shakes his head: "I really do not know why this is so. I only do my job, that's all. I do my own thing, simply because I feel the most comfortable with it. I think that's what everyone should do. Who bends is not happy. But I'm also sure there are plenty of people who do not think I'm cool."
Thanks for that Ja, I hope all this NBC coverage brings more USA fans for Kimi, not that he wants more or cares about having more fans as we just read above though. h" title="hih" />
I only have one question, here it said Haidfeld owns the recor with 41 races in a row, but I thought they were 33, like La Gazzetta Dello Sport said, so wich is it? " title="hmm" />
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