Kimi Raikkonen
Kimi Raikkonen
Kimi-Matias Räikkönen, nicknamed "The Ice Man", is a Finnish racing driver currently driving for Ferrari in Formula One...
NationalityFinnish
ProfessionRace Car Driver
Date of Birth17 October 1979
CityEspoo, Finland
CountryFinland
achieve car feels goal hopefully sunday tomorrow wait winning
The car feels really strong. I can't wait for tomorrow and Sunday where hopefully we will be able to achieve our goal of winning the 2005 constructors' world championship.
bit cars damage exciting happen lap luckily past quite ran rear touched wheel wide
Montoya touched me on the rear wheel a little bit and got sideways, and he got past me but luckily enough we didn't damage our cars so it was all right, ... The first lap was quite exciting anyhow, but I ran wide in the chicane and then unfortunately for him he had something happen to him and he went off.
car feels good hoping results weekend
After the first two races, I am really hoping to have a trouble-free weekend in Australia, as the car feels good and I think that we can get some good results with it.
cars expecting further happens improve point small surface track
I had a small off at one point which is what happens sometimes when you try different things and I'm expecting the track surface to improve further as more cars run.
afternoon bit car complete couple difficult following good hard issue minor running spend team time track worked
It was a bit of a difficult afternoon for us yesterday, because we had to spend some time working on the car following the minor issue with the gearbox, but the team worked really hard to get the car out on track to complete a couple of installation laps, and that set us up for the good running today.
both cars deserved happened near
It was unfortunate what happened (to Montoya) near the end, ... We deserved to have both cars on the podium.
barcelona last test
Barcelona will be my last test before going to Bahrain.
departure effect expect future spoken
From having spoken to the team, we don't expect Adrian's departure to have an effect on our future world championship campaigns,
consider everybody fantastic great relationship team winning
I'm winning races, I'm still challenging for the world championships, the team is fantastic and I have a great relationship with everybody here - so why would I want to even consider changing?
gain knew laps push quickly seven stop time
I knew they would stop before me and I had to push to gain time on them, ... With seven laps to go I went as quickly as I could.
half second won
Championships are won in the first half of the season, not just the second half,
conditions run track
I did one run at the end of the first session, but the conditions on the drying track were not ideal,
drivers formula position
Surely, I'm in a position most of Formula One drivers want to be in,
drivers formula situation surely
Surely I am in a situation most drivers in Formula One want to be in.