Wearing a thick white team fleece and a cap pulled down over his head,Kimi Raikkonen strode into the Silverstone paddock looking as though he
had dressed for winter, on what’s been a cold English summer day. It
was straight to business facing the media to give them his expectations
for the weekend.
Raikkonen: “We have some new parts on the car, but until we try
them tomorrow, it’s very hard to say how they will work out. This circuit is more high speed than
many of the others we have visited so far this year, so at the moment,
I really have no idea how we will compare to the others this weekend.
Hopefully, the new parts will behave as we expect and then we can be
closer to the front than at the last race, where the circuit was more
difficult for us than the previous ones.”
As usual at the British GP, the weather is never far off the top of the
question list.
Raikkonen: “Usually when it rains here it rains a lot, but I’ve
heard the weather should be better for the rest of the weekend. Whatever the conditions, I have had quite good
results here usually and it is a nice circuit. There are always some
tracks where you go better than others for some reason or another and I
do enjoy driving here, so hopefully we can have a good race and the
crowd here gets very involved in the racing and they are very
enthusiastic about Ferrari too which is nice.”
The Scuderia is one of the few teams that has really persevered with
the KERS power boosting system and Kimi was asked how it would work
here.
Raikkonen: “It will be harder to charge up the system here as there is not
very much braking, but we will use it and I am sure it will still be
useful.”
The delicate political struggle engulfing Formula 1 at the moment is
due to continue over the weekend and while Kimi plans to concentrate on
racing, he had this to say on the subject.
Raikkonen: “There are a lot of
questions to be answered and to be honest, I don’t think I’m aware of
all the details, so let’s wait and see what happens tomorrow. But I
don’t think we will know exactly what will be the final outcome for
quite a while yet. 
"I am sure the team will race somewhere, I still have
a contract and will race wherever they want me to. Of course, we all
want to be in the proper Formula 1 as it has been in the past, with
good rules. But it is not up to the drivers what happens.
"I will race
for the team: if it’s Formula 1 then that’s great because that’s where
I want to be, as it is the most important series in the world, with the
best drivers. It would be sad to lose F1 as it is.”
Indeed, and it was thus announced recently this evening that the FOTA are to launch a breakaway series. The F1 websites have been covered with headlines on the ongoing FIA/FOTA dispute and F1’s future. It’s far from over, but this is a strong sign that F1 won’t be the same again and as Kimi said – it would be sad to lose F1 as it is. Alas, there’s a race for him this weekend and I’m sure he and all the other drivers and teams will put their hearts into that as they always have. This does not only apply to Kimi but to the FOTA and all the drivers – Keep Flying!
FUCK ISRAEL 