Kimi Raikkonen - The Iceman

Friday, May 23, 2008

Going Back To Monaco

The F1 GP is coming back at last to Monaco this week. I should say that Monaco GP has been my favorite ever since I became an F1 mania. And this year, Kimi Raikkonen come to Monaco as the leading world championship with 7 points ahead from Hamilton and Massa. Of course, I’d very much like to see Kimi win in my favorite GP, Monaco GP!

At the practice session, Kimi (Ferrari) and Hamilton (MacLaren) are very close in lap time. In the first session, Kimi beat Hamilton by 0.268s. Hamilton was consistently quicker through the short first sector, while Kimi had the edge through the more important middle sector from Mirabeau to the Swimming Pool complex – outpacing Hamilton by 0.4s through there on his quickest lap.

Here is Kimi’s comment on the overall practice session :
"I would say this was a normal day of free practice. We went quite well, especially on used tyres in the morning. But we struggled a bit to do a time on new tyres in the second session and now we have to look at the data carefully to understand how to improve. There is plenty of time to do that and so I am not particularly worried, at least at the moment.

The team boss, Domenicali pointed out few things that need to be anticipated. Firstly, the F2008 performance with the softer tyre, and secondly the weather forecast which underline the possibility of rain during the race.

Well, I can only hope that all Ferrari team will do their best to win this race, and hopefully Kimi is the one who took the victory. Go for it, Kimi !

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