Kimi Buys 200,000 Euro Corvette in Charity AuctionFrom IltaSanomat.fi | Edited by Evenstar Saima
Yesterday evening in Monaco the glamourous Amber Fashion show took place.
Beautiful models, celebrities and the F1 drivers were introduced as 500 Euros paying guests
the latest in fashion.
Kimi Räikkönen and Heikki Kovalainen did not participate in the catwalk like Nico Rosberg, David Coulthard, Mark Webber, Jenson Button, and Lewis Hamilton. But the Finns were a good presence as Kimi shouted during the occasion. Kimi paid 200,000
euros (159 million pounds) for a 1974 Chevrolet Corvette owned by
Hollywood actress Sharon Stone at a Monaco Grand Prix charity auction,
organisers said.
The car, stored in Los Angeles, is twenty years old and said to have just four miles on
the clock, was one of the top lots at a glittering Amber Fashion show
in aid of the Elton John Aids Foundation on Friday night.From Formula1.com
"…And last but not least there was Kimi Raikkonen. The Finn was not on
the catwalk, but he was there in the front row, showing off a precious
leather jacket from the collection….The 1974 vintage Corvette from the personal collection of Sharon Stone
saw a fierce battle – Kimi Raikkonen left the field victorious, the
price tag a cool 200.000 Euro." 
Bravo! You can check out all the pics in the Photo HQ soon – Kimi had a really good time it seems and I’m glad he didn’t do the catwalk actually, he would have been very bored indeed. Good on him!
Old SS Delphine Kimi’s Choice for Monaco Family Gathering
From MTV3.fi | Edited by Evenstar Saima
Formula One’s world champion Kimi Räikkönen has brought his family and friends to the Monaco GP again this year. Räikkönen chose his boat from the period of the old SS
Delphine-steamer, which is anchored in the port of Monaco.
SS Delphine was built in 1921 and it will be able to travel with a total of up to 180 people onboard. Among other things, Kimi’s parents, brother Rami and their families want to stay on 78.5-meter board the weekend.
"As a general rule, the family will be here to see the race. It will be nice for them to have a boat and watch race from there," Räikkönen says. "This is a stylish classic boat. It could certainly be worse," Kimi continued.
Along with 180 people, at the same time there serves
32 crew members on board. The staff member, if necessary,
may increase to 60. This involves a lot of the world’s history. Churchill, Stalin and
Roosevelt worked in this room of World War II during the Yalta
Agreement.
Kimi’s mother Paula Räikkönen was quite taken into with her son’s rental of a Luxury Yacht.
"This is quite a luxury. I heard that this is decorated in 1920s style," the mother-to-Räikkönen praises. "I have not had previously had such a wonderful boat, with one large
cabin. We have been here for many years, in beautiful cabins, but
this is something quite a luxury," she said.
Unique taste from Kimi there, it’s nice that he gets to have his family, wife and friends close by during a race weekend. Hope they have a great time and see Kimi on the top step of the podium.
And don’t forget, in Monte Carlo tonight Petra Ecclestone will be highlighting her fashion clothing line ‘FORM’ with the F1 drivers. Kimi may be participating with Jenni. You can read more on that here.
| Free Practise 2 – Lewis Fastest Ahead of Nico, Kimi
Lewis Hamilton controlled the second Thursday practice session in Monte Carlo, leading the way for the majority of the hour.
The McLaren driver topped the times early on, then was briefly usurped by Nico Rosberg when the Williams switched to soft tyres halfway through the session.
But Rosberg only stayed at the head of the pack for ten minutes before Hamilton too went for the softer Bridgestones and improved to 1:15.140, beating the Williams’ time by just under four tenths of a second.
Rosberg was able to hang on to second place however, ahead of Ferrari duo Kimi Raikkonen and Felipe Massa, with Heikki Kovalainen fifth in the second McLaren.
Both Renaults were damaged in almost identical crashes at Sainte Devote. First the struggling Nelson Piquet spun into the barriers and deranged his rear wing, then his teammate Fernando Alonso lost control at the same spot 12 minutes later.
Unlike Piquet, Alonso managed to keep the car moving, but as he slid wildly sideways, his left-rear corner tagged the barriers, damaging the suspension and wing.
Although he successfully hauled the Renault back around to the pits, Alonso deposited plenty of debris along the way, forcing a four-minute red flag so the marshals could tidy up behind him.
While several other drivers had to short-cut the chicane, the only other men to actually strike the barriers were Jarno Trulli and Adrian Sutil. Trulli scraped his Toyota down the wall after a rough flight over the kerbs on the exit of the Swimming Pool, while Sutil lost his front wing on the Rascasse guard rail in the final minutes.
Despite his accident, Alonso managed to repeat his seventh place from the morning, just behind BMW’s Robert Kubica. The two Hondas took eighth and tenth – with Jenson Button a scant 0.067 seconds faster than Rubens Barrichello – as Kazuki Nakajima edged the second Williams between them.
Pos Driver Team Time Laps
1. Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes (B) 1:15.140 40
2. Rosberg Williams-Toyota (B) 1:15.533 + 0.393 39
3. Raikkonen Ferrari (B) 1:15.572 + 0.432 42
4. Massa Ferrari (B) 1:15.869 + 0.729 37
5. Kovalainen McLaren-Mercedes (B) 1:15.881 + 0.741 39
6. Kubica BMW Sauber (B) 1:16.296 + 1.156 34
7. Alonso Renault (B) 1:16.310 + 1.170 27
8. Button Honda (B) 1:16.351 + 1.211 45
9. Nakajima Williams-Toyota (B) 1:16.372 + 1.232 40
10. Barrichello Honda (B) 1:16.418 + 1.278 32
11. Heidfeld BMW Sauber (B) 1:16.426 + 1.286 44
12. Glock Toyota (B) 1:16.688 + 1.548 46
13. Webber Red Bull-Renault (B) 1:17.094 + 1.954 39
14. Coulthard Red Bull-Renault (B) 1:17.131 + 1.991 39
15. Piquet Renault (B) 1:17.246 + 2.106 35
16. Fisichella Force India-Ferrari (B) 1:17.251 + 2.111 33
17. Trulli Toyota (B) 1:17.379 + 2.239 28
18. Bourdais Toro Rosso-Ferrari (B) 1:17.581 + 2.441 38
19. Sutil Force India-Ferrari (B) 1:18.176 + 3.036 31
20. Vettel Toro Rosso-Ferrari (B) 1:18.225 + 3.085 38
Since this is the glamourous weekend of Monaco (and because Kimi decided to go for change with his helmet) I decided to give Kimi Raikkonen Space a Monaco special look too. Hope you like it! Feel free to use this image as your signature in forums:
So, the first day of practise is over and it’s going well for Kimi but he needs to find something big for qualifying if he wants to win this race and you never know with the weather… Keep flying Kimi!
Kimi Raikkonen – 3rd: "I would say this was a normal day of free practice. We went quite well, especially on used tyres in the morning. But we struggled a bit to do a time on new tyres in the second session and now we have to look at the data carefully to understand how to improve.
"There is plenty of time to do that and so I am not particularly worried, at least at the moment. A wet race? It would make matters complicated but it would be the same for everyone."
Felipe Massa – 4th: "Our rivals are very strong here, even allowing for the unknown factor of fuel loads. I wasn’t able to do a good lap on the soft tyres, but things went well on the hard ones: we have to study the situation calmly and try to get all the details right. If we compare today with the same time last year, I think we have made a step forward. We have changed the settings on the car compared to the past and now we hope we will see the benefits of this choice."
Luca Baldisserri: "We were expecting a particularly difficult weekend and these three hours of free practice have not give us any reason to change our minds. While it is true that our preparations for this race have produced some results, it is equally true that our main rivals have not been twiddling their thumbs either and therefore have turned up here in very competitive shape.
"Our weak point today was mainly to do with performance on new tyres, especially on the softer tyre. We must carefully study the day and try and make the necessary changes so as to be competitive at the highest level. On top of that, we must also keep a careful eye on the weather, which could be the decisive factor for Saturday’s qualifying and especially in Sunday’s race."
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Kimi Raikkonen beat Lewis Hamilton to the fastest time in opening practice for the Monaco Grand Prix, in a session interrupted by a long red flag to attend to a loose drain cover.
The 16-minute stoppage began just before the one-hour mark, after officials noticed the problem with the drain cover on the hill out of Sainte Devote. It was repaired in time for the session to resume for the final 21 minutes.
Hamilton had been quickest for McLaren prior to the interruption, having lapped in 1:17.078 early on. He then improved the benchmark to 1:16.216 shortly after the session was restarted
But with nine minutes to go, he was usurped by Raikkonen, as the Ferrari driver produced a 1:15.948 to beat Hamilton by 0.268 seconds. Those times would stand as neither driver managed a clear lap on their last runs.
Heikki Kovalainen beat Raikkonen’s initial sector times in the second McLaren, but could not sustain the advantage around the final part of the lap and ended up third.
Raikkonen’s teammate Felipe Massa completed the top four in the second Ferrari, with Williams’ Nico Rosberg beating BMW’s Robert Kubica to fifth place in the closing seconds.
Double Monaco winner Fernando Alonso took seventh, as his Renault teammate Nelson Piquet continued to struggle. The rookie was only 18th fastest in the session, 1.5 seconds slower than Alonso.
Behind Honda’s Rubens Barrichello and Red Bull’s Mark Webber, Monaco specialist Giancarlo Fisichella achieved an excellent 10th place for Force India, while the new Toro Rosso showed early promise as Sebastien Bourdais claimed 13th place.
Jarno Trulli and Nick Heidfeld were the only drivers to fall foul of the barriers in the opening session. A brush with the wall on the approach to the tunnel broke the Toyota’s suspension, and Trulli had to park on the exit of the chicane. Nick Heidfeld came to a halt at Casino Square around the same time after apparently damaging the rear of his BMW – the German quizzically examing the back of the car after exiting the cockpit – while a throttle problem on his Red Bull prevented David Coulthard from completing a flying lap, as his car came to a halt between the chicane and Tabac.
Pos Driver Team Time Laps
1. Raikkonen Ferrari (B) 1:15.948 26
2. Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes (B) 1:16.216 + 0.268 27
3. Kovalainen McLaren-Mercedes (B) 1:16.248 + 0.300 28
4. Massa Ferrari (B) 1:16.292 + 0.344 26
5. Rosberg Williams-Toyota (B) 1:16.653 + 0.705 27
6. Kubica BMW Sauber (B) 1:16.834 + 0.886 23
7. Alonso Renault (B) 1:17.498 + 1.550 25
8. Barrichello Honda (B) 1:17.511 + 1.563 26
9. Webber Red Bull-Renault (B) 1:17.798 + 1.850 23
10. Fisichella Force India-Ferrari (B) 1:17.835 + 1.887 26
11. Glock Toyota (B) 1:17.942 + 1.994 26
12. Button Honda (B) 1:18.153 + 2.205 26
13. Bourdais Toro Rosso-Ferrari (B) 1:18.245 + 2.297 30
14. Heidfeld BMW Sauber (B) 1:18.263 + 2.315 13
15. Nakajima Williams-Toyota (B) 1:18.274 + 2.326 28
16. Trulli Toyota (B) 1:18.360 + 2.412 16
17. Sutil Force India-Ferrari (B) 1:18.360 + 2.412 25
18. Piquet Renault (B) 1:18.955 + 3.007 32
19. Vettel Toro Rosso-Ferrari (B) 1:19.176 + 3.228 35
20. Coulthard Red Bull-Renault (B) No time 3
And as you can see in the screenshot image above, Kimi’s helmet isn’t too different from his usual one but the design on the top and the back is very different!
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