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| Kimi Räikkönen won for the first time since his comeback |
They had expected the first victory of Kimi Raikkonen and Lotus already for some time - but again were interrupted, in the second half of the season Lotus will no longer seemed quite a while as strong as in the first. And as it happened in Abu Dhabi, of all places in a race that was so marked by the comeback of Sebastian Vettel, Raikkonen got from a little bit of the really deserved attention.
Said the Finn might come in handy. Finally, it is really not that part of the Formula 1 scene, with whom he prefers busy. And if he goes after the race had more rest than is normally the case when a former world champion in two years 'Pause' in the World Rally to Formula 1 comes back and shows that he has forgotten nothing, then it was certainly No reason to get excited for the Finns.
Many had even pre-season doubts whether it would be for something with this comeback -. Mainly because yes Michael Schumacher had done so hard And if the hard workers and Trainierer Schumi had such problems as that would then create Raikkonen, the already ahead of the call and hurried back to the work, the hard work, healthy lifestyle and hard training does not necessarily have to be invented?
But the natural talent Raikkonen punished all lies, managed with his ride, his instincts and his extreme speed right back to what many others have to work hard. Especially the great theme of the season, the tire was never really one for the Finns, more than once he expressed some surprise at what just because everyone would have it, but now everything that was not science. With Pirelli boss Paul Hembery observed: "He's really no worry about also asks not great He just instinctively do everything right.".
And as little as he is on the tire thoughts does, he does to just even think about how it would look to the outside when he his race engineer Mark Slade clearly above radio intimates that he should finally shut up and with his well-meaning advice to stop, "Let me alone, I know what I'm doing!."
He knows that. "Trying to help the boys yes, but you do not say the same thing twice a minute I'm not so stupid that I can not remember what I'm doing," he said dryly after the race - and caused quite even more amused chuckle from the audience. Thus simultaneously proving that he, despite a certain fondness for monosyllables and standard phrases like "I do not know" is also a significant entertainment value in the show world Formula 1 may have.
But not when he virtually made to order, such as a media or sponsorship is to present date, something entertaining. Then he is not comfortable in his own skin, a foreign concept forced into it, and accordingly is then generally little to nothing out of it, everyone involved is not more than one serving back bad mood.
Lotus him that in this respect can be a lot of freedoms, much more than he at last with McLaren or Ferrari has ever had, is certainly one of the secrets behind the successful comeback. As far as it just kinda goes, he must concentrate on the thing that makes him most: driving. And then only on what it really means something. Race weekends Simulator training? "Why," asks Kimi, "is not my style. From three laps of the track I have more ..." For a day of testing at Mugello, where it might then come raining yet? Superfluous - but Grosjean to drive .... What else caused a scandal, that Kimi would have then in May, just no time for the Mugello test day had at Lotus was tacitly accepted and more or less swept under the carpet. Raikkonen's gratitude for the success.
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