Where is former/young Kimi........? I was used he played first roles and not second man in his team.....Must say I feel slightly disappointed actually 😂😂
judging by the comments about the tyres degradation when getting too close to the car in front I strangely thin that the only chance in this race to overtake anyone in the same car was to have much fresher tyres. I don't defend Rosberg, but Lewis did well to avoid such situation. And then Vettel mentioned something not being able to do anything when getting close to Niko.
Considering that Vettel's race was most likely a priority Ferrari gave Kimi reasonable chances to overtake Vettel. Undercuts didn't really look like a working solution.
But what do I know?
Nomad, you're the rider so mysterious Nomad, you're the spirit that men fear in us
one must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star - it's a satanic drug thing you wouldn't understand...
Kimi Raikkonen: “Considering that my position on the starting grid today was not ideal, fourth place is a good result. My start was ok, I had quite a good jump off the line, and at the first corner I decided to go inside and at the end of the corner I was in the right place and managed to take the Williams under braking – my car is really good at that – and managed to pass them. The car was quite good today; the first set of tyres was a bit tricky, but I think it was the same for everybody, and then the next two sets were ok. Towards the end of the race I was catching up, I knew I had the speed and I thought I still had good tyres. I could still have had a chance to try and fight for podium but the safety car came in and we know we cannot change that.
Today we got close to the podium, from the next race on we have to have a better weekend, doing everything right in qualifying, and we’ll do our best. As a team we scored the maximum today, we know we are behind Mercedes, but we have to be happy with the result. From tomorrow on we have to make another step to be able to challenge them every weekend; we’ll keep working hard as we have done since last year. We trust the way the team is working: now we have to be patient”.
for all the videos Tania! especially the interview, so nice to see Kimi talking about being dad just wish we could hear his voice and not just the translation..
about the strategy.. I don't think that was any sign of Kimi being number 2.. it's simply that the driver infront gets the better strategy, that's how F1 is atm and if you pit first you gain time normally. Kimi could have followed the lap after but then he wouldn't have had tyre advantage at the end. Either way same result and overtaking wouldn't have been easy. Also I think Kimi had more normal strategy, they pitted Seb earlier to be aggressive and put Mercedes under pressure.
To beat Seb, Kimi has to do better quali, in the race it will always be hard to get by.