Kimi Raikkonen had something of a mixed weekend on his return to F1 with Lotus, but in the end he earned some useful points with seventh place, having gained three places on the last lap.
Kimi qualified 18th after just failing to beat the flag and start his last lap, and then a good start was spoiled by the accident ahead.
“It was much harder than it should be, but I think we did pretty well to get back to seventh,” said the Finn. “It was far from the ideal race or weekend, but at least we got something out of it.
“I had a good start off the line and got quite a few places, but then the first corner I had to almost stop because there was an accident and I had to go on the grass to avoid them, so I lost a few places and it put us in a bit of a bad position with the traffic.
“We had the speed to get past the people very quickly, but without that we could have done even better. But I guess it could have been much worse.”
Summing up his comeback event, he said: “It was OK. Overall the weekend wasn’t what I was looking for, we did mistakes, and we had the situation in qualifying where we ended up not really getting a lap. It put us in a difficult position, but I think we did OK out of it. We got seventh place, not the ideal start, but it was better than nothing.”
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I bet kimi is wondering what he could have done this year in that Williams car, for a pay driver like Maldonado to have been doing what he was doing in that car it must be a very very good car.
Some things never change, if anyone on the grid is going to have unbelievably bad luck it will be Kimi. It will be interesting to see how he does in the Lotus when the get to a track that suits the cars performance.
These kind of reactions is what I missed about Kimi not in F1. But now he’s back and the wonderful responses are back. His hunger for wins is greater then any other driver on the grid and the interview he has given prove that (and his in race question towards the team was also a great sign of this “Why do I get al these blue flags” “Those flags are for the cars behind yours Kimi”).
Welcome back Kimi!!!
Kimi is the Casey Stengel of F1. Much missed; great to have him back. And it looks like he’s got a decent car too. What are the chances of that?