Not living in the past.I am not a guy who cares about the past. For sure, I am not going to start now. What happened on Sunday, just happened. This is motor racing and you are not able to change anything afterwards. The points were lost and we were not able to get them back. So let it be.
The race in Barcelona was not on target. Suddenly without any warning beforehand, I just lost the electronics of the car, and that was that. At the time, we were running third with a good strategy.
In qualifying, the first two sectors we had very good speed, but at the end of the lap there was less grip. There is something we must find in this set up to put this right.
It is very difficult to follow cars closely in F1. But I felt with my race strategy things would have worked out and we could have got past Hamilton in the pit stops. Well, now we will never know.
I got permission from the team to leave the paddock quickly to go home before the record crowd of Spain would move around. So I managed to get back to Switzerland to see partly the ice hockey world championship final between Finland and Canada on my own television. Well, Canada won. It hurt. It really was not a good day for Finland.
After the game I went to Sauna, slept well and played some golf on Monday. After chilling out at home I am ready for two days of testing in Southern France.
At Le Castellet, we will try to improve the set up to suit my driving style and work through the programme to test some new parts.
Although I am very disappointed with the DNF result in Barcelona, that is the painful part of motor racing. It is still a long season and I am only 8 points behind the leader of this championship so we have everything to fight for.
There is no point denying I would rather be in the front than some points behind. But like I said, I cannot see any reason why to worry about it. How much the DNF would have hurt, we will find out when the season finishes in October.
Felipe drove a very good race and had a very strong weekend all together. After the start, he controlled the race from the front. I am happy for him and I am happy for the team, but as a team we did not the get the best possible results.
Next stop is Monaco. I enjoy street races and was very pleased to hear Formula One will have two more street races on the calendar next year.
I am very much looking forward to racing in Monaco, and of course, I would like a repeat of the result two years ago.
I’ve been reading a lot of interesting views on the latest criticism and bashing against Kimi regarding his performance and behaviour, notably after the Spanish GP. On the Ferrari forums, I’ve read so much and I feel awful. Though the comments against him have valid reasons and are fair, but I think we have blown this way out of proportion. I’ve been harsh on the guy myself, me, one of the biggest Kimi fans ever.
I just wanted to say sorry, Kimi. But please, think about it. You need to give 100% and some extra. Even if you think you don’t need to, you should. Because that’s what a good man and professionals do. Don’t let your name fade, you have so much more to give, I know this. This may be your ONLY chance to be world champion. Treat every single moment as if there was no second chance. Because there isn’t. So, if something goes wrong, don’t turn your back on it. Fix it, together with the team. Support, together with the team. You’re taking things for granted. Sure, you get your huge salary, and you only want to win. But you, more than anyone, should know it’s not that simple. Don’t show us that your time at McLaren was a complete waste. It wasn’t, it was supposed to make you stronger and smarter. How can you not care about the past? You certainly have to learn from it, and to learn you must want to care. I’m probably wasting my time saying this as if you’ll read it. But then again, why stop now, I’ve wasted 4 years supporting you. But only you can make that worthwhile. So, DO IT DAMMIT!!!!! Anyway…
Kimi is a genius driver. Too much emphasis is given on how technical a
driver should be; Alonso is supposed to be great in that area but he’s
still not performing at his potential (being beaten comfortably by
Hamilton). Whereas Kimi has had 1 victory and 3 podiums not even being
fully content with the car yet, so just imagine what he WILL do when it’ll
get better for him, and Ferrari know this. They knew what Kimi was
like, they had 5 years to see how he was coping at McLaren, they know
that Kimi’s job will be on the track and on the stop watch.
No one bothers with how Alonso is coping at McLaren just because of him
not showing ‘poor attitude’ like Kimi has. At the end of the day, Kimi
is right, his attitude and off track business had no influence on his
performance at McLaren, they simply couldn’t produce a reliable and
fast car at the same time. Kimi does push the cars harder than the rest, and you either love that or hate it. Who knows, maybe the reason McLaren ARE more reliable NOW is because they had Kimi pushing their cars to the maximum? So they built stronger cars from that? Ever thought about that?
And to prove that Kimi’s attitude means nothing, so far in 2007 Kimi was actually the most consistant out of him and
Alonso until his DNF at Spain, something which was not his fault, heck
Alonso wouldn’t have got a podium at his home race had Kimi not
retired, yet for some reason the main story off track is Kimi’s
attitude and not Alonso’s poor attempt of making a move at Massa. Is
that how bad the racing is nowadays? Forget what happens on track, lets
talk about Kimi leaving the circuit! OMG! Lol.
Point is, we don’t even know what even happened after Kimi retired in
Spain, we saw him in the garage have quite an enthusiastic chat to his
mechanics, and then half an hour later, he left the circuit. Big deal.
Perhaps there was nothing more he could do. And he’s a big hockey fan,
maybe Ferrari should get the sports dish in the motorhome for Kimi.
And then we have these people having their little say about it, who
might not have even heard the full story, and later it gets fed through
the media as if the guy knew exactly what happened. It happens all the
time, and quite frankly it’s good that Kimi doesn’t care. If he did,
we’ll be complaining of how pathetic and easily demotivated he can get. And, as Ted Kravitz importantly pointed out, Michael still hanging about and distracting the team (yes, distracting the mechanics and teams focus from Kimi) and these car problems is NOT what Kimi signed up for.
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FUCK ISRAEL 