ZitatI'm happy to go back to Ferrari 11th September 2013
"Now it is done! I'm happy to tell you all I'll go back to Ferrari. I have been there before, I won the world championship with them back in 2007 and I still know the team very well.
"We have been talking to them for a while and finally everything is signed and sealed. For the second time in my career, I will be a Ferrari driver. I'm very proud of making a comeback to the Maranello outfit. "Now we just focus on this season. There are seven races to go, so we have seven races more to get good results for Team Lotus. I will try my very best to finish this season in the best way possible."
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Zitat Basically it says that the contract is 2+1 instead of 1+1 as the Italian and British press claims. - the 3rd year is that option that is speficially in Kimi's hands. Räikkönen gets to decide if the contract continues after 2 years or not. Ferrari has no say in this matter, unless they take care of with by paying big money , like they did the last time, our source told.
would be interesting to find out more for the contract, especially if he'll take Slade along and also if he'll be allowed to do rallying
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ZitatKimi made a good choice
Julkaistu 11.9.2013
It was a really good move from Kimi to go to Ferrari. I am under the impression that next season Ferrari and Merc will be the two strongest teams. They have worked on developing the turbo-engine for a long time already. They have more resources than other teams have. Of course Red Bull will be in the mix.
If Alonso still stays in Ferrari, like they say at the moment, then they have a strong driver-duo. I doubt Kimi cares about who his teammate is. Alonso might throw some tantrums every now and then. F1-teams work basically so that they have two separate teams inside the team. They share some information so they can develop the car, but other than that they basically do their own work.
A driver duo like this is pretty amazing in today's F1. Let's see what happens. Maybe Alonso will take off, one never knows. Personally I would like to see these two in the same team. It would be like in old Senna vs. Prost -days. I would like that very much.
I want to remind that Kimi never got sacked from Ferrari back in the times, he was just paid to step aside when the team got a sponsor bringing in a lot of money and they wanted a different driver. The team got more money when Kimi wasn't driving. Now Kimi is the best driver available so they hired him.
I also believe that Luca di Montezemolo is satisfied with Kimi's comeback, because Kimi was the best available option. Montezemolo isn't interested in anything else than the team getting results and Ferrari winning. I think it shows good leadership from Montezemolo, that he realises he made a mistake earlier. Now he swallows it.
WOW...just heard from the news..The negotiations with Ferrari started with personal apology from Montezemolo to Kimi about his treatment in 2009. Otherwise they wouldnt have continued, said Oskari Saari.
Zitat von AppletreeWOW...just heard from the news..The negotiations with Ferrari started with personal apology from Montezemolo to Kimi about his treatment in 2009. Otherwise they wouldnt have continued, said Oskari Saari.
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And Kimi, always a gentelman, won't brag about this in the media.
ZitatKimi Raikkonen now a better F1 driver than in 2009 - Ferrari By Jonathan Noble Wednesday, September 11th 2013, 19:42 GMT
Kimi Raikkonen is returning to Ferrari a better driver than when he left at the end of 2009, reckons his new team boss Stefano Domenicali.
Rather than be worried about Raikkonen's cool personality and lack of technical leadership that proved to be a contributing factor in him being dropped for 2010, Domenicali has said that things are different now.
And the team had been especially reassured about the progress Raikkonen had made on the technical front by its new chassis technical chief James Allison, who worked with the former world champion at Lotus.
"We worked with Kimi for three years from 2007 to 2009 and we never had a problem," Domenicali told the Ferrari website regarding doubts about Raikkonen's character.
"Sure, everyone has their own ways and you can't expect a Finn to start telling jokes in Italian or playing the clown.
"Honestly, I think the combination of Fernando's expressive and passionate Latin character and the cool style, to call it that, of someone like Kimi, seems to appeal to many, including the youngsters. And our partners are also in agreement with this.
"As for the technical side of things, not only do we know full well how much Kimi can contribute at an important time like this, when the technical framework is changing so significantly, but we also have first hand information from James Allison, as to how much the Finn has also progressed in this area over the past two years."
Ferrari's decision to put two world champions alongside each other for the first time in its modern era has already prompted questions about the political tensions it could cause.
Earlier this year, speaking about the possibility of Sebastian Vettel being drafted in alongside Fernando Alonso in the future, Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo ruled out the team ever wanting 'two roosters in the same henhouse'.
Domenicali is calm about the matter though, insisting the team can handle the situation.
"I would only say that the combination of Fernando and Kimi is the best one could have today in Formula 1, in terms of talent, experience, competitive spirit and the ability to move car development forward," he said.
"As for the "poultry" question, it brings to mind football fans who are scared of rival teams because they have so many strong forwards and so they hope they will fight each other for the ball.
"For anyone thinking that the choice of Kimi is somehow an anti-Alonso choice, I can put their minds at rest: at Ferrari, everyone knows the interests of the team come first and only then those of the individual.
"Fernando is a key asset for this team and he will be for a long time.
"I'm sure he is the first to be happy with a choice made to strengthen the group, because he is too intelligent not to realise that a stronger team can only be an advantage."
Zitat von AppletreeWOW...just heard from the news..The negotiations with Ferrari started with personal apology from Montezemolo to Kimi about his treatment in 2009. Otherwise they wouldnt have continued, said Oskari Saari.
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Zitat von AppletreeWOW...just heard from the news..The negotiations with Ferrari started with personal apology from Montezemolo to Kimi about his treatment in 2009. Otherwise they wouldnt have continued, said Oskari Saari.
Zitat von YiNing Faced with Kimi as a teammate, Alonso will do well to live by that adage so beloved of grandmothers around the world: if you don't have anything nice to say, better to not say anything.
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