Kimi Raikkonen broadly does not demonstrate a great deal of feeling, but rather it rose over the British Grand Prix weekend that he appreciates a touch of schadenfreude.
Barely 24 hours after it was reported that Ferrari had re-marked him for 2017, the monotone, muttering Finn held his typical post-qualifying news meeting. In regard to the new contract, he said, “I wouldn’t be here if I didn’t think I can drive well. I am very happy about it. It gives me pleasure to see disappointed people.” To Raikkonen’s fans – and he has maybe more than some other F1 driver – such musings are hellish cursedness. To them, the Finn is the quickest man on four wheels, and he simply needs a car that suits him to demonstrate it.
The truth of the matter is that more than more than two seasons as Massa’s team-mate, Raikkonen was shaded by the Brazilian, who out-qualified him 24-21 and out-scored him 213 focuses to 203.
Raikkonen was then dropped to clear a path for Alonso, who obliterated Massa more than four seasons, provoking Ferrari to re-sign Raikkonen. Furthermore, we definitely realize what happened next.
His fans contend that for Raikkonen to be taking care of business, he needs a car that carries on precisely the way he needs – with a positive, responsive front end and an anticipated back.
In any case, a F1 driver needs to make the best of the car he’s given. On the off chance that he drives less adequately on the off chance that he doesn’t care for it, that must be seen as a fizzling.
In that first season, his team-mate was Spaniard Fernando Alonso, who beat him in qualifying 16 times in 19 races, was a normal of 0.529 seconds a lap faster and scored about three times the same number of focuses.
In the event that you take just the races in which an examination in qualifying was reasonable. It was 12-1 to Alonso at a normal of 0.548secs. Raikkonen has not precisely put forth a persuading defense for as yet being a totally beat level stupendous prix driver since he rejoined Ferrari in 2014. The German said,
“In general I got along with all the team-mates I had,” the German says. “Here and there we had some difficulties but with Kimi there are no politics. That is good. It keeps everything quiet.
“We put our own egos aside. They are not so big. I would say Kimi and I have the least ego problems of the whole paddock, which is good for the team. We race hard but outside the car there is no problem.”
