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Kimi and Todt must have a laugh every year together as they are the last 2 to win a title at Ferrari... long gone was Brawn and Schumi and Alonso and Co. have not been able to pull it off yet either

Quoted for the new page



Todt to Kimi: "Not yet eh?"

Kimi: "Not yet..lol"

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I'm dying to hear Kimi's speech at the FIA awards event

I want to see the video edit.

Each Gala dinner has amazing video edit to recap the whole season.. He'ere 2005's. By faaaaaar, my best one - http://vimeo.com/3128945

Kimi was sitting next to Christian Horner during the ceremony. I hope they were making arrangements for 2014

They are happy with Webber. They had the chance to sign Kimi instead of Webber twice, but never even entertained the idea so why now?

And if you refer to the Vettel departure, I'm sure they will go with one of the youngsters and keep Webber for one more year to insure a smoother transition ..

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Great fun, hadn't seen that. Thanks!

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Grosjean, Räikkönen
Hülkenberg, Bianchi

Mercedes AMG Petronas
Lotus F1
Ferrari
Vodafone McLaren Mercedes

Something I wrote in the RoC thread:

Turun Sanomat asked why Kimi hasn't entered the RoC since it would be like tailor-made for him with all the different car types. Here's what Kimi had to say:

- I just don’t feel like going. They’ve asked me often. During my first years in F1 I really wanted to participate, but I never got permission while I drove for McLaren.
- If the race was similar to what it used to be in the Canary islands where they drove on sand and tarmac with rally cars and others, I would join immediately.
- Now when it’s in stadiums it’s a such a Mickey Mouse show that it’s nothing like it used to be. I’ve made a suggestion to the organizers that they would change it back to the old format and then I would be interested in participating.

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Tires were Kimi's issue this year.

I don't have time to translate everything with my "sunday school Finnish" but below some outtakes.

http://www.mtv3.fi/urheilu/f1/uutiset.shtml/2012/12/1674468/kisainsinoori-kertoo-nama-olivat-raikkosen-paluukauden-haasteet

Mark Slade tells that Kimi had to take it easy and change his driving style to get Pirelli to work.
He also says that because he took that easy he got the third this year because he probably would have a crash at some point.

Couple of quotes:

"Kimi decided to have a careful approach this year and bring in the points which helped him to secure the 3rd."

"His driving style saves front tires which caused that in some places we did'nt get them in right operating temperature. Romain succeeded in this. There was 4 races where Romain had an advantage on one lap speed"

"Kimi did a lot of development work on fridays. This had also an effect how the rest of the weekend works. This did'nt always work the way we wanted when considering some of the qualifying performances. All and all he managed this very well.

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There's a new translation from Nicole

Kimi Räikkönen's race engineer looked back at the highlight of the season - "It was horrifying"

Kimi Räikkönen and his race engineer Mark Slade looked back at the Iceman's comeback season in the latest F1Racing-magazine. Slade told that the victory in Abu Dhabi was extremely important for the team, because it took away the pressure of the so called 'breaking of copper'from them.

Then engineer praised the Finn widely saying that it proved how Räikkönen was his "old self" again... continue reading here http://www.racingnerds.com/?p=1194

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New translation from Nicole

Mark Slade about Kimi Räikkönen’s close situation: “Please don’t crash into each other!”

Mark Slade looked back to the toughest situation during Kimi’s comeback season in the latest F1Racing-magazine.
Slade got cold chills in Hungary GP where Räikkönen slapped his teammate Romain Grosjean in a brilliant manner. Kimi came from the pit lane to the track right beside Grosjean and as a professional he kept his own driving line. Romain had to give way in the situation because otherwise they would have crashed – Grosjean’s driving went badly wide...http://www.racingnerds.com/?p=1197

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Sorry I can't seem to find the E-20 thread so I'll post the pics here as it is also related to Kimi... Hope that's ok!

Lotus E20 show car in Helsinki 04.12.2012

Here are pics taken by fellow racing nerd, Hummingbird! She was at a Helsinki mall and there was a Lotus E20 show car, Kimi’s helmet and his steering wheel out on display! Enjoy, courtesy of Hummingbird!...http://www.racingnerds.com/?p=1200

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another poll, another chance to vote for Kimi

http://www.pistonheads.com/news/default ... ryId=26844

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What we talked last february:

"Veni vidi vici."

It's funny how after that Abu Dhabi win I didn't concentrate too much on Kimi's last races. Maybe I was thinking that the season for him was already crowned by that win and since he was out of WDC contention there was not much to be done anymore. I just wanted Vettel to win the WDC and the season would be a good wrap. And so it was.

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Do you think that the speed is good at this point? - It doesn’t matter how much behind the others we are at this point. The car will anyway be rebuilt before Australia. Now we just drive around.

According to Ilta-Sanomat Kimi got 1 million dollar bonus for win and 50 000dollars/point. So about 7.8 million euros bonus for this season.

nice present for Christmas definitely in santa's 'good boy' list

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We put our faith in maniacs the triumph of the will
We kill for money, wealth and lust, for this we should be damned
We are disease upon the world, brotherhood of man

i have ordered a kimi/angry birds cap!! Will be getting it next week!!! Yayyy!!!!!

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KIMI: Yeah,Winning feels good.But I am not the type of guy to jump up and down and rub it in everyone's face.

Denorth,

the whole translation is here... sorry for delay, I live in a different time zone from Nicole

http://www.racingnerds.com/?p=1227

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nice one kimi

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Just wondering..as Kimi said there was nothing to negotiate as he had a deal for 2013 already..if he has the bonus system for 2013 also, his salary would not be bad at all if he keeps on going like this also next year.

Usman..I have only one beanie from Kimis rally time..its Red Bull Kimi beanie

A little bit of team mate war statistics.
In races where both Raikkonen and Grosjean were classified.
KR/RG
78/117 (sum of finishing positions)
5.6/8.4 (mean average finishing position)

first 7 races
37/42
5.3/6

last 7 races
41/75
5.9/10.7

All qualifying compared.
142/147 (sum of qualifying)
7.5/7.7 (mean average of qualifying)

first 9 races
77/53
8.6/5.9

last 9 races
65/94
7.2/10.4

Anyone know how Raikka did in his snowcross race?

Has he been planning on going to any snowcross race after the one on December 8th (which he didn't attend)?

This is my third one.... Already have a Kimi ferarri cap and a beanie!!! and a few mugs!!!

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Any news lately else than these translations?

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you know the season is over when this thread is only moving one page per week.... it was moving more than a page a day during the season

Yeah, I know... Thiese translated links are usually old news by the time they end up here so hopefully somebody spots something new.

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and another translation about kimi

courtesy Nicole

Russians Prefer Kimi

F1 | Turun Sanomat 10:31
The Russian Automotive Magazine -magazine’s website has chosen Kimi Räikkönen as their motosportman of the year. Kimi beat Vettel and Fernando in the voting.
According to reporter Oleg Karpov they took the driver’s achievements, speed and character into consideration in the election.... read more here http://www.racingnerds.com/?p=1237

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Respected journalist David Tremayne singled out Kimi's Abu Dhabi win as the best moment in F1 this year. http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/moto ... 29649.html

Just bringing this thread back to page 1.

Lol... Life is so boring till Pre Season Testing starts

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KIMI: Yeah,Winning feels good.But I am not the type of guy to jump up and down and rub it in everyone's face.

Kimi quotes of 2012:
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/104959

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The YallaF1 Driver of the Year award goes to...

http://www.yallaf1.com/2012/12/31/driver-of-the-year-kimi-raikkonen/

Pistonheads 'Motorsport moment of The Year' goes to....

http://www.pistonheads.com/news/default ... ryId=26887

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We kill for money, wealth and lust, for this we should be damned
We are disease upon the world, brotherhood of man

Nice

deserved. finally a mainstream journo who understands Kimi. and one who understands how some fans see it.

we dont admire a driver just for how quickly he change gears etc but also his personality.

stendec,

you might like this one too http://www.sabotagetimes.com/sport/raikkonen/

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