Kimi’s Column: Turkish GP Review

From KimiRaikkonen.com | Finnish translation courtesy of Wolfie

Oh well, Turkey wasn’t the kind of place we
expected it to be. We already said that we can’t change the situation
in a flash into something. You just have to be patient. We did well in
Monaco even though we didn’t exactly have the best car but in Turkey we
couldn’t keep up with the lead in the same way.

I guess it kind of came from behind the bushes, us losing the speed at
the racing day. After the practice we still believed that we will be
ahead of Williams and Toyota in the race rhythm but still we got screwed up by them on Sunday.

There ain’t much to tell about this guy’s race. I almost didn’t get
going from the slippery side of the track in the start and lost
immediately my place there. Then I went a bit wide in the 9th corner
and when I tried to patch up things I hit Alonso’s back tyre and lost a
piece of my front wing. My downforce went weaker and it hurt in those
fast curves on that track.

The front wing was replaced during the first stop but it was already
too late to try anything. I already lost the point positions during the
first lap. The rest was just cosmetic.

If you want to look for something good then we were fast in the slow
places just like in Monaco. We just have to work more so that we would
find speed into the fast places too.

I arrived at the chequered flag in position 9. If I wouldn’t have bumped I would have got a couple of points easily.

Even though the result does not show it the car felt once again better.
I just didn’t get what I was looking for. We get new pieces to the next
races too and the team is working their asses off so that we could also
get better results.

My eyes are now focused on Silvestone. I have a long mutual history
with that track. I’ve raced there a lot and it’s always cool to go
there again. Ferrari’s car has usually been great there.

Let’s just hope that we get a whole and good weekend – just to salute midsummer.

5 thoughts on “Kimi’s Column: Turkish GP Review

  1. Unknown's avatar

    Ho Yes !!! We hope all together better futures weekends, with speed and piloting to the extreme one for one of the better pilot to the World … KIMI …Say all together Good luck to KIMI to bring back us Podiums !!!… and Points… Have an excellent day everyone, Bye-bey and see you …

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  2. Unknown's avatar

    That’s the spirit Kimi- always bring something positive out of race weekend, even though it didn’t really go to plan. I really do admire that of Kimi. I hope, and i’m sure everyone else on this site hopes that you have a better weekend at Silverstone.And i’ll say it with you Valerie ‘Good luck Kimi’

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  3. Unknown's avatar

    "just to salute midsummer" that’s all i have to share 😉

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  4. Unknown's avatar

    kimi..gam^ba^taei!

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  5. Unknown's avatar

    I think Kimi has driven a basically good season this year. Ferrari has just not managed to make a good car for him this time. My estimation was, that Kimi could do good in Turkey, but not."just to salute midsummer"Hehee, midsummer is a big big party in Finland. Sun won’t go down at all. Kimi is hoping, that he will bring something more in that party 🙂

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