Renault play down Kimi’s snow mobile race incident

Source: autosport.com

Renault says Kimi Raikkonen did not suffer any serious harm when he crashed in a snow mobile race in Austria today.

The Formula 1 returnee was reported to have fallen on an early run in the event and suffered pain from his left wrist, ruling him out of the rest of the weekend.

But the Renault team has issued a message via its Twitter feed underlining that Raikkonen was largely unscathed.

“We just spoke to Kimi,” it read. “There’s nothing to worry about, he only has a sore wrist. He might have it checked again on Monday, but that’s all.”

Renault announced last week that it had enticed Raikkonen back to F1 for 2012 after a two-year stint in the World Rally Championship, and has since promoted Romain Grosjean from the third driver role to become his team-mate. The team will run as Lotus from next season.

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7 thoughts on “Renault play down Kimi’s snow mobile race incident

  1. JB's avatar

    Ahh… it’s so nice to see articles popping up here in KRS again! And not just copy-paste but with relevant pictures 🙂

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  2. Imola's avatar

    On Twitter Kimi Raikkonen tweeted about this 🙂 Thanks for the pics!

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    1. Evenstar Saima's avatar

      I never really believed that twitter account to be actually Kimi, just a fake, but who knows! lol

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  3. Amol Joshi's avatar

    Saima are you back?

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  4. Imola's avatar

    Let’s hope that he ” starts to tweet for himself “…. We can never know 😛 🙂 But anyway, it’s good to have new info’s from there too.

    Nice to have you back Saima!!

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  5. Evenstar Saima's avatar

    Thank you, it feels really good to be back and see some of you guys still loyal to KRS 🙂

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