kimi said rain is coming down at far end of the track..so they just get on with the wet tyre only to know that god of rain release the waters 10min later
already since last season how many times gamble like this doesnt pay off
Kimi Raikkonen “We were in a good position at the time of the first pit stop and then we made a mistake, fitting the rain tyres when the rain had yet to fall. And that was where my race was pretty much over. When the race was halted, the conditions were very difficult. There was so much water on the track and I was struggling to drive the car even in second gear. Clearly we cannot be happy with our start to the season: in Melbourne, I was the one to make a mistake and today it was the team, the result being we find ourselves without any points.”
No wonder Massa pretty outspoken lately. I wonder, Ferrari ok with it? (Massa bashing the team) Silap haribulan...he's the one replaced and not Kimi
muahaha..at least he predicted race not going to restart..y not have ais krim and coke rather than soaking wet waiting at grid
hmm although he predicted smartly but he shud be more professional and sportmanship, fully cloth changing, eat icecream and drink coke will giv wrong impression that he will retired. I'm the fan of Kimi, saw him like tat yesterday im thinking in my mind WTF! he wan gave up? while the rest of drivers focusing and discussion with team members under the heavy rain... dissapointed in him...
This post has been edited by takeshi99: Apr 6 2009, 09:04 AM
hmm although he predicted smartly but he shud be more professional and sportmanship, fully cloth changing, eat icecream and drink coke will giv wrong impression that he will retired. I'm the fan of Kimi, saw him like tat yesterday im thinking in my mind WTF! he wan gave up? while the rest of drivers focusing and discussion with team members under the heavy rain... dissapointed in him...
Better than him shoving off cameraman etc. I hated when that happened.
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QUOTE(takeshi99 @ Apr 6 2009, 09:03 AM)
hmm although he predicted smartly but he shud be more professional and sportmanship, fully cloth changing, eat icecream and drink coke will giv wrong impression that he will retired. I'm the fan of Kimi, saw him like tat yesterday im thinking in my mind WTF! he wan gave up? while the rest of drivers focusing and discussion with team members under the heavy rain... dissapointed in him...
yeah. i know that ist a good impression at all. but the fact to the matter is, he knew his race is over the moment ferrari made a very bad call for him to come for a pitting and change to full we tyres while there isnt any rain fall yet. i was there yesterday and seeing the ferrari changed to full wet through the big screen and i looked around there isnt any rain at all, i said to myself WTF are they doing to kimi =,=.
ps:i dun mind he does that coz ive been his fan after hakkinen retired and have been following him from mclaren to ferrari and i saw he did that kind of 'cool' 'so what' 'i dun give a damn' attitudes a lot of times. believe it or not, that what makes him kimi raikkonen for u.
I kinda like the gamble with the wets, except i can't believe they let him take it.
From 6th place, even if the tyre switch was PRECISELY bang on time, it just takes 30-40 sec's for the front runner to do another tyre switch as well, which can happen in 1 lap's time. However if the gamble didn't pay off as it what happened he stood to lose 30s PER LAP. Not understand why you would gamble 1-5 laps (depending on when the rain really starts) of 30s slower to gain 30-40 sec's. Even if the God of rain told Kimi when the rain will come, it's still doesn't actually bring any tangible gain, as he was more than 30s off Button at the time of pit.
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yeap indeed bro. but at least we did some effort to make up more points to our pocket, dun we? look at mclaren, despite how bad the car is (same as ours) lewis still got some point and that is hugely important in the long run for the championship game.
Ya, Kimi's car had KERS problem, though it may be a rouse.
They were considering if restart, to switch off the KERS and continue. But obviously that is no meaning..I heard this during live commentary, an Italian Ferrari spokesman said so.
Even thought Ferrari was bad yesterday, they gave us some nice "entertainment"
Felipe baby, stay cool!
FM - i need a white visor..please come out, white visor..... otherwise i cannot see anything
Rob Smedley : felipe baby, stay cool, we bringing in the white visor....stay cool..we are in a good position
Altough I just watch this during replay(as I was at the circuit), its still one of the best moments in Sepang 09....it surely was an entertaining race altough the ferrari's didnt do well......a lot of incidents.....a lot of overtaking......I saw Webber vs hamilton live taking each other in front of my eyes
Added on April 6, 2009, 3:40 pm
QUOTE(camel90 @ Apr 6 2009, 02:12 PM)
from SIC radio broadcast yesterday they didnt even talk about that though. if waht u said is true then they'd missed the important news then =,=.
was on the replay this morning around 2am I also went to the race, came back around 1am > then stiched on my TV to watch the replay
This post has been edited by pilotHans: Apr 6 2009, 03:40 PM
yeah. i know that ist a good impression at all. but the fact to the matter is, he knew his race is over the moment ferrari made a very bad call for him to come for a pitting and change to full we tyres while there isnt any rain fall yet. i was there yesterday and seeing the ferrari changed to full wet through the big screen and i looked around there isnt any rain at all, i said to myself WTF are they doing to kimi =,=.
ps:i dun mind he does that coz ive been his fan after hakkinen retired and have been following him from mclaren to ferrari and i saw he did that kind of 'cool' 'so what' 'i dun give a damn' attitudes a lot of times. believe it or not, that what makes him kimi raikkonen for u.
I folo since the very first day he join sauber petronas and also he same age as me... lolx