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Hokan oli tyytyväinen...Nelssoni sanoi:
Tämä oli suurempaa kuin kukaan uskoikaan...Always nice to read about F1 in main stream media, and even nicer when it is so well-informed. Watching the race in a Brasilian bar with a number of other fans, who were all hoping that Hamilton would win, I was surprised to see how happy we all were that Räikkönen finally got his championship. Well-deserved indeed!
Also, it is funny to talk about karma and $700 million in the same breath…
— Posted by Håkan
Ei kannata lisätä mitään... Bernie...
5.October 23rd,
2007
8:43 pm It must be said that in spite of Kimi’s run of atrocious luck at McLaren, he never complained. He never blamed the team for the DNFs, and he always expressed hope that the next race could end on a more positive note. Say what you will about Kimi–he’s detached, not a great public speaker, etc.–but he’s never been a diva. Besides, eloquence and personality never won anyone a world championship. The man can drive.
16.October 23rd,
2007
11:04 pm As an American living in Finland, I am in the middle of Finland’s obsession with racing. But before you characterize his speech as robotic, may I ask how well you would address a crowd of reporters using Finnish? He speaks English stiffly, he drives sublimely. Try living in a world using your second ( or third ) language. Hyvä Kimi!
— Posted by Stu
@ Flat out Forever
There were many times that Kimi had to come back from the very end. McLaren seemed to always need engine swappings and that cost him qualifying spots.
In the 2005 British Grand Prix, his grid start was 12th and he ended in 3rd place. Not to mention Suzuka 2005 when he went from 17th to 1st. Kimi is astounding in bouncing back. He’s definitely not dependent on pole position.
— Posted by Elba
October 23rd,
2007
11:38 pm I think Raikkonen is the fastest and most talented driver in F1 but as you well pointed out, luck has not always been on his side. And as others have pointed out, he is detached but respectful. He doesn’t point the finger at anyone but himself. He speaks carefully and thoughtfully, if not reluctantly. Listen to what he says because it is usually spot on.
And he is quick, really quick. The fact that Raikkonen, Alonso and Hamilton are so young bodes well for the future of F1. Now if we can just get the greedy Bernie Ecclestone (what is he making this year? $60 million?) and the perpetually inept Max Mosley out of the picture, the sport will be so much the better.
— Posted by Michael Deane
22.October 24th,
2007
1:38 am McLaren is and always will be my favorite team. Being an American with Finnish roots, my favorite current driver is Kimi. He has consistently shown it’s better to have the excitement on the track, not in the post race interview. Given the challenges of his F1 career, I believe he posesses that unique Finnish quality known as “sisu”. Congratulations Kimi!
— Posted by Pam
.October 24th,
2007
3:03 am Hamilton ditching the championship after having a 17 point lead with two races to go has to be rank up there with the biggest chokes in sporting history. All he had to do was score 4 points in two races and he would have been champion! He ends up beached at 40 miles per hour in the worlds smallest gravel trap in one race and fumble fingers a self inflicted rebooting of the cars start up procedure that drops him to 18th in the other. Cars wreck, tires pop and engines blow up. But who ever heard of rebooting the cars computer in the middle of the race!
I do love the fact that Kimi got his reward for all the times when karma didnt go his way. I love the fact that he showed up in a Gorilla suit and won a snow mobile race during an off weekend this year. I love that when his car gave out at Monoco last year he just went to the hot tub on his Yacht DURING the race. He is one of a kind.
— Posted by Carldec
26.October 24th,
2007
4:32 am I think it is wonderful that kimi won this year. lewis is a rookie and ron dennis has paid way to much time in to making him something he isn’t quite yet. All this has shown that mclaren will go to any lenghts to win even if it is wrong and looks foolish
— Posted by cassa
27.October 24th,
2007
5:10 am @ Flat out Forever,
If there’s one guy you can depend on to fight back from a bad starting position it’s Kimi. That’s one of the reasons Ferrari choose him to replace Schumacher, the icecold motivation to fight back. Kimi is the fastest driver now that Schumacher is gone. Even this year he suffered alot of mechanical failures and still pulled it off. He deserves it. He never talks badly about other people, something “the children” of Mclaren (Hamilton-Alonso) could learn something about. Congrats Kimi!
— Posted by Guido
October 24th,
2007
10:08 am Great article.
The added irony is that the team that nearly killed Kimi with its total inability to put a safe or reliable car together while he was valiantly trying to win those championship(s) is now, with the same pathological lack of fairness shown earlier this year, trying to wrest the title from him.
I would fine McLaren again for damaging the sport and Kimi’s celebrations and being so inhumanly ungrateful.
— Posted by adrian valmorbida
October 24th,
38.October 24th,
2007
1:37 pm This was a wonderful article, many more please.
Suzuka 2005 also gets my vote for race of the decade. Kimi excels either in the sprint from the front, OR in hunting down rivals from towards the back if has a pace advantage. He has never bothered much if there are a bunch of cars ahead with better pace. I don’t blame him for that!
In 2004 Kimi pulled off the only on-track racing victory against Michael Schumacher in a wet race at Spa. With the advantage of the sticky Michelins and Kimis driving, even the mighty Ferrari with Michael at the wheel couldn’t get him on the restarts. Michael won most of the rest of the races except for retiring at Monaco and never being in contention in Brazil.
The single most thrilling duel in recent memory was, to me, Kimi vs Michael at the Brazilian GP last year. Kimi held off Michael for five laps in a car that didn’t win a single race all year, up against Michael in the extra special Ferrari with a true 20,000+ rpm engine that Ferrari gave him as a special gesture for his last race. Find the in-car footage on YouTube. This was the passing of the mantle in Formula1.
Chris Morgan
— Posted by Chris Morgan
2007
11:48 am This was arguably the best F1 season in recent years, after the “boringly” uncompetitive Schumacher years. Mike was outstanding, but the guy and his car just clobbered the competition with precision and reliability. Kimi absolutely deserved the win, and the fact that this years championship went down to the wire made the whole thing so much more interesting. And the spy scandal, the Hamilton phenome, Alonso’s pace and future…great year. Kudos to NYT for publishing this balanced article; here in the USA, any F1 exposure is welcome. Good Job, Richard (don’t you write for Autoweek, too?…the one mag that covers F1 stateside)
— Posted by Ari S
40.October 24th,
2007
3:31 pm Amazing article. Thank you!
Sometimes I wonder if Americans realize that F1 is the biggest individual sport in the world, and unlike NASCAR and Indy drivers these guys are HUGE worldwide stars.
Congratulations to the Iceman. He’s not much of a PR person but he really lived up his reputation in Brazil. That was coldly calculated, ice cool win.
— Posted by B Tanner
44.October 24th,
2007
9:07 pm Why, given that McLaren-Mercedes implicitly accepted responsibility for industrial espionage, did the FIA not impose sanctions on Hamilton’s and Alonso’s driver championship points? How could they not be aware that they were driving cars and being supported by a team that was using proprietary knowledge from their opponent? One conjecture: perhaps they were given immunity in exchange for verifying the industrial espionage and use by McLaren Mercedes…Recall the two-steps - denial of the FIA accusation, then accepting responsibility for unfair technical data use by McLaren Mercedes’ team management.
— Posted by Cadfael
54.October 26th,
2007
2:58 pm Watching the last two races in China and Brazil, I felt like the universe was correcting itself after a 6-month dissruption in the time-space continuum! I think Hamilton is amazing, but there’s a good reason why rookies don’t win championships and in those final races, it was rookie mistakes that took him out. The universe corrected itself and the right (Ice)man won!
— Posted by Agent00Soul
56.October 28th,
2007
8:04 pm FINALLY the iceman wins!!! I’ve been waiting for this moment since the debut of Kimi to Mclaren. What a driver, what a man. How many times do you see Kimi make mistakes under pressure? NONE, thus the iceman. Whereas Massa clearly isn’t like that as we saw him in the Malaysian GP where Hamilton (only his 2nd or 3rd race) outsmarts and gets Massa rattled up into the gravel trap.
Finally, finally, finally, I’ve never been so happy to see Kimi as the World Champion.
— Posted by Jack
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