Raikkonen honoured on Finnish stamps.

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It is great to see that they are honoring the world champion by making stamps of him.
However, i doubt that Kimi even cares about it

Me too.
Sh*tty strategy?
Look at how they release Massa after the 2nd pit stop.
Nearly collide with Sutil   

Hey...here's an interesting thought.
Schumacher's there for Massa?...Massa only?   

Ferrari is working with no respite. By Monday morning, the engineers who were on track at Valencia the day before were already in meetings with their Maranello-based colleagues to carry out the usual post-race debrief, during which the key points of the weekend were re-examined with a view to deciding on what action should be taken.

Initial analysis of the engine fitted to Kimi Raikkonen's car, which arrived in Maranello Monday morning, confirmed the breakage of a con rod. Currently underway are further checks to try and understand what provoked the failure, even if it is easy to surmise that it could be a similar problem to the one that sidelined Massa three laps from the end of the Hungarian Grand Prix.

Furthermore, the engineers were aware of a potential risk in general terms with the engine fitted to Raikkonen's car, which was on its second race, given that the con rods were part of the same batch used on Massa's engine in Hungary.

Changing the engine on Raikkonen's car would have seen the Finn start from far down the grid at a track where it appeared that overtaking was impossible, proving it's not enough to bring Formula 1 to a street circuit in a fantastic location to produce spectacular racing.

Starting Tuesday, the team is back on track. Andrea Bertolini will give the F2008 its first outing at the Monza circuit, using the second of four "joker" days available to the Formula 1 teams as part of the testing regulations.

Felipe Massa will take over from the Italian on Wednesday and Thursday, with Kimi Raikkonen bringing this intensive test session to a close on the track that will host the Italian Grand Prix on 14th September.

Kimi:
Link ~ http://en.f1-live.com

Looking good.
Let see how he'll do on a track that he 'really like' 

Kimi rarely spoke.
But when he does (about racing), it's very informative.

Hope Kimi's stamp better than Mika's 

When asked whether he expected the Finn to support his bid to become Brazil's first champion since Ayrton Senna in 1991, should Raikkonen fall further behind, Massa told reporters on Thursday: "If necessary, yes. As I did last year."
"Because of me, my team mate won the championship. He (Raikkonen) is a fair guy and I expect him to do the same for me."

Renault's Fernando Alonso set the fastest time in a rain-affected second free practice at the Belgian Grand Prix at Spa-Francorchamps while world champion Kimi Raikkonen of Ferrari crashed out.

Felt so down at the moment.
So cruel what happened to Kimi.
Now I know how Schumi fans felt when he DNF in Suzuka 2006.

But still he's to blame.
Last win was on April.

It's his fault of being impatient while driving in the wet on hard tyres.
Hammy using his head and drove slow...Kimi on the other hand does not.
So happy to see Hammy went wide etc. but Kimi even worse la pulak...spinning & hit wall 

Seems all the luck is with Hammy this year.

Maybe won't watch the rest of the GP.
Hope Massa won the WDC though.

Felt so down at the moment.
So cruel what happened to Kimi.
Now I know how Schumi fans felt when he DNF in Suzuka 2006.

But still he's to blame.
Last win was on April.

It's his fault of being impatient while driving in the wet on hard tyres.
Hammy using his head and drove slow...Kimi on the other hand does not.
So happy to see Hammy went wide etc. but Kimi even worse la pulak...spinning & hit wall 

Seems all the luck is with Hammy this year.

Maybe won't watch the rest of the GP.
Hope Massa won the WDC though.

Hamilton?

It's because of the car not the driver

BMW Sauber driver Robert Kubica has chided Lewis Hamilton's suggestion that world champion Kimi Raikkonen didn't 'have the balls' to beat him at Spa Francorchamps a week ago.

Ferrari's Raikkonen shrugged off the Briton's comments with his typical cool disregard, but Kubica sounded surprised when he too was informed at Monza about Hamilton's brash words.

"Did he really say that?" Kubica is quoted as saying by Motorsport Aktuell. "I cannot imagine that."

"We drivers should have a fundamental respect for each other," he concluded.

Never underestimate a sly old fox. When most had discounted him as a title contender, last year Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen gave his competitors a dressing down in the season’s final races and walked away with the crown. With a 19-point deficit on championship leader Lewis Hamilton, Raikkonen seems to be facing a similar situation in 2008, though now with team mate Felipe Massa also among his rivals. Ferrari haven’t yet picked a favourite, but the Finn knows he must perform well in Monza if he is to stay in the picture…

Q: Kimi, how is life as the reigning world champion? You have been in the public eye for quite a while but the title must have increased attention on you? How do you deal with that?
Kimi Raikkonen: It’s true, it increased but it has not changed any normal living. I wouldn’t say that anything is different for myself - and the racing is still the same. But yes, it’s nice to be the champ. I always wanted to achieve that - and it’s something that can never be taken away from me. This is the really great part!

Q: Driving for Ferrari is every aspiring young race driver’s dream. Is it a dream come true for you?
KR: It was a dream at one point for me as I always wanted to come into Formula One and be with a top team. So far I’ve been lucky to be in two top teams. I enjoy being here and I had a fantastic time last year - when I joined last season, I had more fun than I have had in a long time. It is a great place to be, working with all these 120 percent-committed people. And red suits me, I would say.

Q: This season must be like a deja vu for you. As in 2007, you are playing catch up in the title race. But what is different to last season?
KR: Well, so far it has not been the easiest year. There have been a lot of difficulties lately, but that is part of racing sometimes. We have had some issues in getting the car exactly how we want it. We had a strong first part of the season and then we faced some problems. It has been difficult, yes, and hopefully we can turn it around a bit and get some good results. It is not too late yet - but it is getting difficult with every race. Let’s wait and see how it develops.

Q: Last year it was you against Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso. This year the title match involves your team mate. That obviously doesn’t make things easier…
KR: Of course not. But again, that is part of racing. At the end of the day, it does not matter who it is - you need to beat all of them. So it doesn’t make any difference if it is your team mate or somebody else. You need to be in front of everybody if you want to win.

Q: But teams can concentrate their efforts on one driver…
KR: We have never had that situation. Of course last year when it was clear that the other car had no chance - points-wise - then it was a different story. But as long as we have every chance, we need to take them. Until that ‘no-chance situation’ comes, it is up to us to move forward - or to come back in my case.

Q: If your chances decrease, will you play the role of supporter to Felipe?
KR: When I clearly have no chance at all then it is a different story. But then that is not up to me. First Felipe needs to be in a position where he can try to win, and then if there is something that the team will benefit from, then it might be yes. But until that situation comes, I am not interested in talking about it.

Q: The championship is still wide open with five races to go and 50 points up for grabs. At what point would you accept that your chances to win the title have evaporated?
KR: As I just said, when it is clear that I will not be able to make enough points.

Q: In Spa you drove for all or nothing. In hindsight, would you do it all over again or settle for securing some points?
KR: I wanted to win - or nothing. Unfortunately I got nothing that time, but at least I had more fun that at many races before. And what are sure points? I needed more points than the others, so realistically I was in a position where I didn’t have much to lose, so I went for it. Afterwards it is always easy to say that by playing safe I would have probably ended in second place, but that is not the right way to win. I want to win it on the circuit rather than after the race. What happened in Spa happened. Again, that’s racing.

Q: The F2008 seems to be a very different machine to last year’s car. Are you still struggling to adapt your driving style to its characteristics?
KR: I would not say that the car is so different to last year. It is more about getting the tyres the way you want them to behave - that is the biggest issue. But then again, they are the same for everybody. When you compare the tyres from a couple of years ago, what we have now is completely different. So hopefully next year when we get the slick tyres it will be more as it used to be - meaning that it will be more fun to drive. And it’s not about wanting the old car back, it is more about getting the package right for us. And the last races indicated that we are on the right track.

Q: Monza is Ferrari’s backyard. It’s almost an obligation to succeed here. You have never won this race. How much ambition is there to walk away with the trophy on Sunday?
KR: I have never made it here although the chances were there. It would of course be great to win here - especially as it is the home Grand Prix for Ferrari. And hopefully we are in a position on Sunday to fight for it - that would be great.

Q: What about you and Felipe? Is there a rivalry?
KR: It is like at any other race. I try to win, he tries to win. This is normal procedure in a top team.

Q: You wouldn’t die for it, but what would a race win here be worth to you?
KR: Of course not. But be assured that I really want to win here and it would make me more happy than in a long time to be on the top spot of the podium on Sunday.

Q: Were you satisfied with the test here two weeks ago. Did it give you any indication of what your performance level will be?
KR: The test was not bad. It was definitely better than where we were one year ago, so we should have quite a good chance of a good result, but it depends on many things. If we get everything running well and the weather stays nice, that would improve our chances.

Q: All that sounds as if you are still enjoying racing…
KR: I would not be here otherwise!

World champion Kimi Raikkonen said he was not yet thinking about helping Ferrari team mate Felipe Massa despite his own title ambitions looking all but over following Sunday's Italian Grand Prix.

cant wait for the singapore nite race next weekend  .......anyone also going down to singapore 

Felipe Massa has revealed that he and Ferrari team-mate Kimi Raikkonen are far from friends away from the circuit in Formula One.

The Brazilian said that he expects no help from the Finn as he endeavours to defeat McLaren rival and World Championship leader Lewis Hamilton for the 2008 drivers' crown.
Raikkonen may be the sport's defending champion, but Massa - currently 20 points ahead of his team-mate and just a single marker adrift of Hamilton in the standings with four races left to run - is irrefutably Ferrari's principal hope for glory 12 months on.
There have been a number of suggestions that the Scuderia should focus on giving Massa the best chance possible of winning the title, but he is adamant that he will fight his own battles and revealed that his relationship with the driver of the sister F2008 is strictly professional.
"Whether I do it [win the championship] or not is completely separate to what Kimi or anyone else does," the 27-year-old driver told German newspaper Welt am Sonntag.
"I am sitting in the car - I am the one who wins races or makes mistakes. It is my game.
"We work with each other and want Ferrari to be world champions, but we are not friends; we have no private relationship.
"If we are together in a meeting, when it is finished he opens the door and is gone."
Massa added that he is much closer to his previous team-mate Michael Schumacher - now a Ferrari advisor and a man he describes as being 'like an older brother' - and again underlined his conviction that he can be world champion this year.
"Otherwise I should not even be sitting in a Ferrari," he said.
Crash.Net / Eurosport

ok..the red cars look good under those lights 

i hope not only look good but get the pole and a win

lolipop? wat's tat?