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Broken-winged Räikkönen was also grateful for his luck
The Racing Nerd April 15, 2013 No Comments

Translated by Nicole

F1 | Turun Sanomat 15:03

A failed start and broken front wing are handicaps of such a caliber that the one suffering from them doesn’t usually end up on the podium. Yet Kimi Räikkönen squeezed to 2nd position through difficulties.

It was his career’s 71st podium and his 24th second podium. Räikkönen went past Ayrton Senna when it comes to 2nd podiums on the list of all times.

Then how does Räikkönen characterize his problems.

The start?

– I think that we just had a wrong setup. The starts went very well in practice, but then the actual start was poor. We lost a few positions but after that the car was okay.

The collision?

– There was some fuss with Perez. Our nose and front wing was damaged. I was surprised there wasn’t more damage because I hit him pretty hard. It was also a surprise that there were no troubles afterwards. The car was a bit understeering and it damaged the front tire but we were still able to come in 2nd.

– We went to fight for the victory but it was impossible from these positions.

Then how much laptime did the broken wing cost and could you have raced with a 2-stop strategy if it wouldn’t had happened?

– I can’t tell how much the broken wing affected the whole race, but a car isn’t designed so that a thing like this would help. I can’t say if it affected a tenth or perhaps half a second per lap.

– It was unfortunate, but on the other hand there was a bit luck also since the car wasn’t damaged more. Hopefully the next race is normal again so that we can race for victory.

Who decided not to replace the front wing during your pitstop?

– I would actually had wanted it to be replaced it and I wasn’t sure if they would do it or not. I think that they took a look at it during the first pitstop but probably thought it would take too much time. I don’t really know. I haven’t spoken with them yet.

– The reason why it wasn’t replaced could have been that the car was still in a reasonably good condition and I could overtake with it, Räikkönen pondered.

Turun Sanomat, Shanghai

http://www.ts.fi/moottoriurheilu/f1/473 … onneaankin

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F1PitRadio ‏@F1PitRadio 1m

Here's all of Kimi's messages edited into 1 vid. Short, but hilarious as always! ;D http://youtu.be/gVDApUlueyQ

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^^^^^^

oh thats really funny Ja!!!!

did you see this "sea" of Finnish flags?

Trackside Operations Director Alan Permane talks tyre strategy and explains why sometimes it’s better to run with damaged parts rather than replace them in this exclusive Chinese Grand Prix recap


http://www.lotusf1team.com/good-fun-for ... t-the.html

from AMuS: Lotus never planned 2 stop strategy. Permane: "That would have been a mistake same as Vettel's strategy. We never understood why Red Bull is taking such risks. Who starts from 9th place can't believe he has a problem free race. You have to expect that someone like Hülkenberg will drive infront of you at any time."

another reason they didn't change the front wing was that after 2nd stop Kimi came out about 3 seconds infront of a group of cars. with the change he would have came into that group or even behind and lost much more time.

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Any video of the Press Conference? I missed it too

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italian Sky is the only channel who shows the pc so it's dubbed unfortunately http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSodmPxLmGA

or do you mean the podium interview?