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
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,
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.
member objective races win
My objective is to win races and world championships as a member of McLaren-Mercedes,
corner good quick race win
I will try to win the race because we have a quick car. If we get through the first corner without problems, I can have a good race. I have nothing to lose.
definitely fighting fights-and-fighting points
We got those 10 points back. We are definitely back in the championship, back and fighting again.
deserved few happened laps last perfect race team
We had a perfect race and it was unfortunate for the team what happened in the last few laps because we could have had a one-two and we deserved it,
bit last lucky today unlucky
We were a little bit lucky today but we were so unlucky in the last race,
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.
bad contract few happen next obviously
I don't know, a lot of things can happen in the next few years. He (Alonso) obviously has a contract but you never know what's going to happen. But I don't have any bad things to say about McLaren.
ahead
I don't have any idea when I'll retire, but I don't think that I've got a lot of years ahead of me.
conditions run track
I did one run at the end of the first session, but the conditions on the drying track were not ideal,
definitely deserves fight hard next prepared rest season team
He definitely deserves it. But he had better be prepared for me and the team to fight him hard for the rest of the season and next year.
best
I did my best but it wasn't enough today, ... The Renaults were too quick.