Formule 1

LOL there was thing in our newspapers that said "Mahan beat Kimi" it was some golf game and I thought it was some nice charity game that Kimi attended but lol it was just some American golf player Anthony Kimi... :D
 
We at the Official KR forum even created lyrics to his new song but I won't post it...:lmao:

Hamilton: I Fear No One
Formula 1 World champion-elect Lewis Hamilton has insisted that he does not 'fear anyone' when it comes to his rivals – though he does admit Robert Kubica and former team-mate Fernando Alonso will likely provide him with his sternest competition in the years to come.

The McLaren-Mercedes star stands on the edge of becoming the sport's youngest-ever title-winner at Interlagos in this weekend's Brazilian Grand Prix.

Though some have questioned his mental resolve, Hamilton insists that he is far more ready for the challenge that lies ahead of him than he was in São Paolo this time twelve months ago, when he let slip a seven-point advantage over Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen in the season finale to ultimately, and agonisingly, miss out on the laurels by just a single marker at the end of a stunning debut campaign in the top flight.

"I remember last year, going into the final race, I was really on the back foot," the 23-year-old related in an interview with UK newspaper The Observer. "[There was] so much pressure was on me. I felt the whole country, the whole world... I just felt this huge weight on my shoulders, and I went in and I made several mistakes, and we dropped back.

"This year, because I've experienced it, I'm much better-prepared. Yes, there are demands on my time – media, promotional work, training, testing, travelling, engineering work, racing – but I'm incredibly passionate about Formula 1 and they all form part of the best job in the world.

"Some sides of it I'm not that comfortable with, like the intrusion into your life, but it's part of the job and there's nothing that would make me not want to be doing this. I don't feel that I have to ‘cope' with anything. I'm very fortunate to be where I am, and I don't let myself worry about things people might see as negative.

"You could spend your life looking back at things, thinking through what might have happened if you had taken a different decision, but I don't really understand the point in that. Why spend time looking back negatively when you could be living your life instead? What has been is done. I know I will always do the best I can at any given moment.

"What I learnt last season has really added to this season – all the problems I had last year, and all the good experiences too. This year, after times like Canada, I think I've learnt to take my time, not rush into things, not take too many risks, just do what is needed – giving 100 per cent and not 110 per cent."

Hamilton has made a point recently of increasingly including his family in his success, revealing that they are his true driving force – and the inspiration for the fiercely competitive streak that has spurred him on to no fewer than nine grand prix victories and 22 rostrum finishes from just 34 starts in the uppermost echelon.

"Without my family, I wouldn't be able to do anything," the Stevenage-born ace underlined. "I owe everything to them – my dad for pushing me and helping me with decisions; my mum – my two mums – for being so supportive, for raising me and for giving me direction; and my brother – he's never, ever doubted me.

"I'm a very determined person; that drive comes from me rather than outside influences. From what I can remember, and what my family told me, I've always been like that. I'm competitive all the time – even if I'm playing a computer game with my brother, I have to win."

Admitting that he also draws a great deal of inspiration from his racing hero – the late, great three-time F1 World Champion Ayrton Senna – Hamilton mused that it would make him ‘incredibly proud' to follow in the legendary Brazilian's footsteps and lift the ultimate laurels, perhaps thereby ‘opening the sport up to some people who hadn't really considered it before' in becoming F1's first-ever black world champ. "He was an incredible human being," the former GP2 Series Champion reflected of Senna, "and although I never had the opportunity to meet him, I have learned a lot from him, both on and off-track. I couldn't even begin to imagine what it would have been like to race him. I would be so blown away."

These days it is rare to see Hamilton ‘blown away' by anyone on the circuit, and in a sobering message to his opposition he warns that he will only improve from hereon in. He knows he will face some stiff rivalry in the future – most notably, he contends, from Alonso and Kubica – but he is confident of being able to at least match whatever they can throw at him."

"I don't fear anyone," he asserted. "Kubica is going to be a serious challenger in the future. He and Alonso will be, perhaps, the two most fierce competitors I have to face, [but] you can always improve and that is what I strive to do with the team, my manager, all the time. I just know you can always get better."

haha after Canada it's the best if you've learnt not to rush into things, especially not into a certain Ferrari driver's car's rear..... OMG:doh:

And your biggest fear is Kubica and/or Alonso... where are the others? So, you do not fear of Kimi for example... Good on you. It's funny though that after Spa you said: it's the best thing to fight with people like Kimi.
 
LOL there was thing in our newspapers that said "Mahan beat Kimi" it was some golf game and I thought it was some nice charity game that Kimi attended but lol it was just some American golf player Anthony Kimi... :D

haha it's funny...:lmao:
 
We at the Official KR forum even created lyrics to his new song but I won't post it...:lmao:
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Kinga said:
haha after Canada it's the best if you've learnt not to rush into things, especially not into a certain Ferrari driver's car's rear..... OMG:doh:

And your biggest fear is Kubica and/or Alonso... where are the others? So, you do not fear of Kimi for example... Good on you. It's funny though that after Spa you said: it's the best thing to fight with people like Kimi.
:rofl:

That's true though :mellow:
 
Post it! Post it!

Ok, you wanted it... here you go:

17 point lead

It would have been an easy win, I was the fastest man on the track.
I was soooo "fast"; I was sure I would never crack
Until I realised, the Iceman was on my back.

I tried to escape so mad
with that fact
my engine just meowed like a cat

Before i knew it, he's already flying high;
Ron got on the radio and told me to crash in him, or i'll die
So that's what happened and guess who is to blame?

I may be covered in *** No swearing *** of shame,
but I'm the best and I'm so fond of my fame..

Chorus
Oh ~ 17 point lead, that i could've win it,
if only god was by my side...
Oh ~ 17 point lead, it's impossible to beat,
That's what i thought before my shameful defeat...

Last part
So this is my year,
And nothing can stop me here,
As i won't let it happen again,
the 17 point defeat.


That's from 2006.... :lmao:
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LOL that song is awesome!! :rofl: You have to send it to Hamilton :lmao:
 
Q & A with Kimi Raikkonen

By Jonathan Noble Thursday, October 30th 2008, 12:59 GMT

Kimi Raikkonen arrives in Brazil ready to help teammate Felipe Massa in the championship, but aware that the Brazilian will need the same amount of luck he had in 2007 to clinch his title.

Speaking to reporters ahead of the Interlagos race on Thursday, however, the Finn made it clear everything is possible, as he found out last year.

Q. What can you do to help Felipe this weekend?

Kimi Raikkonen: In the end it is not up to us, we can only try to be 1-2 and it's up to McLaren if they have a problem of finish third, there is nothing we can do. The first aim is to try and be 1-2 and see what happens. There needs to be a bit of luck involved but we will see where we end up.

Q. Do you expect the same performance and result as last year?

KR: Definitely last year we were strong and the year before strong also, this year has been slightly more difficult. We have a little bit different tyres this year so probably not as good as last year, but I expect our car will be strong here anyhow and we should have a very strong race.

Q. What are you feelings about the weather?

KR: I don't know. Somebody local knows more very well, last year seemed sometimes very hot and sometimes quite cold, it changes very quickly. You just need to get the best out of it and make the right decisions when it comes so we will see where it comes.

Q. There are lots of youngsters now like Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel. In F1, is there space for drivers below 30 years of age?

KR: I am 29, so not so old! There are others older and I have been many years in F1 but I can easily have four of five years if I want in F1. :D:D There is no issue if you are 30/31, if you are good enough you will stay there, even now we have a couple of guys who are 35 or 36, it depends which teams you are at and how you do. It is not a question of how old you are.

Q. Are you impressed by the new generation?

KR: For sure they are good, they seem to make good races all the time. You always going to get the young guys going and if you get in a young team they will get strong races.

Q. What do you think about the new regulations for 2009?

KR: New rules, new tyres and different things that are unknown for teams and drivers, it is difficult to say where we will be next year and how close the teams will be. For many we have had same regs so smaller teams caught up with big teams. Next year the big teams have an advantage and next year who makes the best job with the new car first will have a big advantage. There will be a bigger difference between the teams than in the past.

Q. Do you think Ferrari have overcome the qualifying problem with the tyres?

KR: I don't think there is an awful lot of difference to come here or the the last couple of races, it is more how the weather will plan out. I was pretty happy in the last few qualifyings so definitely for myself it has been better but we need to see. There is a lot to do with the weather and the surface of the circuits, last year we were strong here so we will see what we can do.

Q. Have you any idea how many times you have been asked if you are going to help Felipe, and does it bother you?

KR: Every time every race lately they ask and I think it is a normal thing, I know what I need to do for the team and in the end we try to win two championship. I am not interested if people don't like what you say or how it pans out, that is what I am here to do.

Q. McLaren seem faster in colder temperatures, do you see that as a problem and do they have a weak spot?

KR: I answered the tyre question already, it all depends on the weather and surface. Sure McLaren are often very fast on the one lap but I haven't been in McLaren for two years so I don't know if they have weak points, they seem to be strong they don't seem to have man mechanical problems and doesn't seem to be a weak point now. We don't think about it much, we try to do our best and if that is not enough there is nothing we can change.

Q. Will the change to slick tyres next year change your driving style?

KR: The rules have changed in the past and still more or less everybody drives the same way because you need to change a different way of driving but you try to get the car working for you and then you drive as you want. Like I said before it is new rules and new tyres so it's difficult to say how it is going to be. We need to wait until we get the new cars and in the winter you get a bit of an idea with new car and new tyres and teams will change cars to suit next year's rules, the first answers we get when we get new cars.

Q. How quickly will it take you to adapt?

KR: I don't think it takes a long time, now we have new tyres and new parts but we get a little bit of an idea over the winter. We do a few tests and we are learning all the time new things about new cars and new things but should not take too long.

Q. You worked with Juan Pablo Montoya and David Coulthard. Do you believe Massa is the strongest of your teammates?

KR: It all depends on many different things, the cars and in the past years who has been happy with what. For sure he is definitely one of the strongest I have had, it is only a good thing you push each other and help the team go forward but definitely he is one of them.

Q. Last year you came here fighting for championship, this time you don't have any chance. Have you learned something from 2007?

KR: Like I said I don't have a chance this year, last year we had a small chance and were able to win it. For sure this year we learned from small mistakes that we did and we tried many things and we will have a better understandings on a few things next year and it definitely helps us.

It's too early to say how it helps us but I am expecting next year to be strong as well. We had a bad moment in the season and that is why we cannot win the championship but we had good bits before and afterwards, I am not worried about next year at all. :clapping:

Q. Who is your tip for the championship? who has more pressure Felipe or Lewis?

KR: Felipe in the end does not have anything to lose, even if we are 1-2 it is not up to us any more, McLaren need to make mistakes so they need to be fifth, in the end they have more to lose than us, they have more pressure but we need to have a little bit of luck and if they have a very bad weekend then it is not too difficult, we see every race this year they are more or less there, top four of top five, it will be difficult but you never know.

Q. Is this your worst season since racing for McLaren and Ferrari?

KR: No, I would not say that. I would say the first McLaren season I think I finished only six or seven races all year, sometimes you have a bit more difficult season and after last year when I won the championship you have a little bit more difficult season and they look more closely, for sure we have had some good races and good plans, the overall results is not what we want but it is one of those years that is not easy and we made some mistakes, it hasn't been good but hasn't been the worst of my life.:)
 
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CK underwear, again... :wub:
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It's going to be a Thriller GP :lmao: :lmao: :D:D:wild: Read the cast list too! You'll laugh your a** out!!!!:D It seems they also thought this was a damned year for Kimi... :lol: and there is Lewis "horrific" Hamilton :lol:
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Even if I don't understand French it's soooo funny.... Kimi was waiting for Felipe to pass him.... :lmao: :lmao: :lol: and Kubica's BMW.... :lol: and Heikki's tyre cooking :lol:
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^ Even if I do understand some French I didn't quite get it. But it was fun, I guess :D
It's going to be a Thriller GP :lmao: :lmao: :D:D:wild: Read the cast list too! You'll laugh your a** out!!!!:D It seems they also thought this was a damned year for Kimi... :lol: and there is Lewis "horrific" Hamilton :lol:
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LOL :rofl:
Look that pic of Kimi :lmao:
 
^^^yeah :lol: And what about Felipe-Michael or Lewis-Michael? :lmao: It's so funny!

Back to the serious things, 1st free practise is over. There was little rain but it didn't have an effect on the work on the track. Both Ferraris seem quite strong, so is Hamster.

1.Felipe MassaFerrari1:12.305
24 2.Lewis HamiltonMcLaren-Mercedes1:12.495+0.19023 3.Kimi RäikkönenFerrari1:12.507+0.20218 4.Robert KubicaBMW Sauber1:12.874+0.56924 5.Heikki KovalainenMcLaren-Mercedes1:12.925+0.62020 6.Fernando AlonsoRenault1:13.061+0.75625 7.Mark WebberRed Bull Racing1:13.298+0.99324 8.Nelsinho PiquetRenault1:13.378+1.07329 9.Nick HeidfeldBMW Sauber1:13.426 +1.12128 10.Timo GlockToyota1:13.466+1.16133 11.Jarno TrulliToyota1:13.600 +1.29524 12.Nico RosbergWilliams1:13.621+1.31623 13.Sébastien BourdaisToro Rosso1:13.649+1.34430 14.Rubens BarrichelloHonda1:13.676+1.37128 15.Jenson ButtonHonda1:13.766+1.46113 16.Nakadzsima Kazuki Williams1:13.806+1.50124 17.Sebastian VettelToro Rosso1:13.836+1.53130 18.David CoulthardRed Bull Racing1:13.861+1.55619 19.Adrian SutilForce India1:14.704 +2.39921 20.Giancarlo FisichellaForce India1:14.821 +2.51621
 
WOOhooo!!

Now I feel again like, I want Massa to win.. :)

What to win? The race or the championship? Because he could win the race but that doesn't mean he could be the champion. Hamster has to mess up things again or has to have some engine problem or so. I don't think it would happen. Then again, rain is a big question. They say there would be rain both during qualifying and the race. That can turn around things quite easily. I'm very excited. I don't want Massa to be the champion.

I almost forget: Keep flying Kimi!!!:yes:

.....and I found a good record company for Hamster's album, it's called "Red Light Co."... :lol:
 
What to win? The race or the championship? Because he could win the race but that doesn't mean he could be the champion. Hamster has to mess up things again or has to have some engine problem or so. I don't think it would happen. Then again, rain is a big question. They say there would be rain both during qualifying and the race. That can turn around things quite easily. I'm very excited. I don't want Massa to be the champion.

I almost forget: Keep flying Kimi!!!:yes:

Everything :) I'm now on non-Hamilton mood and everyone else is good, which means Massa.

Kinga said:
.....and I found a good record company for Hamster's album, it's called "Red Light Co."... :lol:
LOL Kinga. :doh: :D
 
2nd free.... wow Alonso...:D

1.Fernando AlonsoRenault1:12.296432.Felipe MassaFerrari1:12.353+0.057413.Jarno TrulliToyota1:12.435+0.139444.Kimi RäikkönenFerrari1:12.600+0.304325.Mark WebberRed Bull Racing1:12.650+0.354456.Sebastian VettelToro Rosso1:12.687 +0.391477.Nelsinho PiquetRenault1:12.703 +0.407448.Nico RosbergWilliams1:12.761+0.465429.Lewis HamiltonMcLaren-Mercedes1:12.827+0.5313310.Nakadzsima Kazuki Williams1:12.886+0.5904211.David CoulthardRed Bull Racing1:12.896+0.6003812.Robert KubicaBMW Sauber1:12.971+0.6754813.Nick HeidfeldBMW Sauber1:13.038+0.7424914.Timo GlockToyota1:13.041+0.7453915.Heikki KovalainenMcLaren-Mercedes1:13.213 +0.9173716.Rubens BarrichelloHonda1:13.221 +0.9253917.Sébastien BourdaisToro Rosso1:13.273 +0.9774118.Jenson ButtonHonda1:13.341+1.0454919.Adrian SutilForce India1:13.428+1.1323220.Giancarlo FisichellaForce India1:13.691+1.39533
 
^^^:D:D:D

GOOOOOOOO KIMIIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!!!!:punk:

I have some English excerpts from the book about him:

Finland’s 2007 midsummer celebrations were just around the corner, and the Formula One drivers’ season was approaching its half-way point. The second part of the American section of the tour, the seventh race in the series, would take place at Indianapolis. Even though many distracting thoughts must have been running through Kimi Räikkönen’s mind in a location so far from home, he showed no external signs of this. But the wish to speak to his old friend Kalle Jokinen just wouldn’t go away. According to Jokinen, his mobile phone rang on that Indianapolis weekend while he was in a karaoke bar with friends. The caller was Räikkönen, who said that the team had a lot of work to do to build a car that would see off McLaren. Then Kimi obviously recognised from the background noise that his friend was not at work.

”Could you go and sing ‘Truck driver’ for me,” he said. “And leave the line open while you’re singing. It helps, because sometimes it’s a little lonely out here.” Jokinen did as he’d been asked and went off to perform Matti Esko’s version of Räikkönen’s favourite song at the top of his voice. Another of Kimi’s karaoke favourites is Kari Tapio’s ”Pole position” - for obvious reasons. Thanking his friend, Räikkönen said he’d get in touch later.

awwwww :)

When the reporter asked him how on earth it was possible to use an outside toilet in sub-zero winter temperatures, Räikkönen had his answer ready.
“It’s easy, just be quick,” he said.

:D:rofl:
 
and Kimi found a new friend in F1!!!:)

THE LOVE FOR KARTING AND RALLY MADE KUBICA KIMI'S FRIEND

TS-SPECIAL

Turun Sanomat, Sao Paulo

HEIKKI KULTA

Robert Kubica has a new friend on the F1-grid - the Polish guy and the 29 year old Finn have a lot more in common that just personalities.

-It was unbelieavable to see how a mutual first love - karting - can get these guys together. Their eyes were sparkling from excitment and they seem to still know everything that goes on on the karting-level, Kubica's manager Daniele Morelli smiles.

Kubica has just started his own karting-team in Italy and who would be better to give hints than Raikköinen, who has a longer experience of his own BMW- and F3-teams.

Turun Sanomat got the year's driver Kubica's special interview in Interlagos.

What kind of relationship do you have with Kimi?

- I used to think Kimi was a different person than now when I have been talking with him longer.

- Kimi is a strange guy. During 3 years we exchanged only a couple words. Then we met in Singapore and Japan, sat down, started talking and talked for long. Kimi likes karting just like I do too.

- We were already joking that in our next career we will be racing together in rally. It would be totally fantastic. To be honest, I hope it happens. It would be great to some day get to race in for example Finland's WC-rally. We will wait and see what happens, Kubica says with enthusiasm.

Both Kubica and Räikkönen are known as men who talk very straightly about things. Neither one of them can do politics at all.

- Maybe a personality like we have isn't good for F1. I think that's the reason that we like karting so much. We agree that karting is the most genuine racing. We would both want that F1 would be more like karting still is. Karting-times were a real pleasure and gave me as a race driver the most, Kubica says.

Räikkönen also says that Kubica is a nice and fair guy.

- Robert knows Toni Vilander well and that way we just started talking. It was nice to talk when we have a lot of mutual interests, Kimi said.

THE TWO MOST FAIR DRIVERS ON THE TRACK

One thing Kubica and Kimi have in common is also the great respect they get from their fellow racers for their fairness on track.

- I would say that the battle I had with Kimi in Japan was in it's own class. It was very fair from both of us. We were side by side but I didn't make a move to the side. I gave him room and I would say that in that situation there was mutual respect for each other as racers and it could be set as an example for everyone.

- It isn't always like that. Some drivers behave totally wrong and try to push the other one out. Of course it's a more effective way to defend your place. But it can come back to you, Kubica reminds.

- A year ago I had also in Fuji a battle with Felipe Massa but it was much more dirtier. He tried to push me out off the track but I gave a little back. It was kind of nice in the rain.

- The truth is though that tough battles in F1 are very, very rare. If count my own experiences from this season there aren't many. That's why you remember the biggest one.

Where does the line between a fair and an unfair battle go?

- It depends on the driver. Some of us are fair, some aren't. It's difficult to say exactly where to draw the line. It depends much on the circumstances, Kubica thinks.


I'm so glad!!!! :)
OMG!!!! That is totally amazing! So, Kubica also liked the battle with Kimi in Japan just like me!!!! I've always thought they have lots of things in common. They both are fair, talented and fast, doesn't like to talk to the media, really honest, both like rally, don't get involved in dirty quarrels or politics at all, not celebrity-type drivers, etc.

I'm glad finally they got to know each other better!

Thumbs up for Kubica and Kimi!

I'm not surprised that Kubica said that he thought Kimi was a strange person because Kimi doesn't like to talk that much and you may think he's cocky or boring... but of course when you got to know him better it turnes out that he's just a cool, talkative and funny guy!
 
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I rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreally want a Ferrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrari victory!!!!!!!

:hat_wave: :hat_wave: :hat_wave:
 
Go Ferrari!!! :hat_wave:

OMG I was biting my nails off yesterday I was hoping Massa do a good lap so badly.
I don't want Hamilton to win the championship. I don't care how talented and fast he is, his attitude doesn't deserve the title. He has to grow up. So, Massa is less bad right now..

Yesterday when Hamilton was doing little mistakes on his lap, our commentator said: "Could it be Hamilton has too strong hormone action now that his girlfriend Pussycat-Nicole is here too" LMAO :rofl:

Gooooooooo FerrarI!! :hat_wave:
 
Great that Trulli made it in front of Hamilton, he will slow him down a bit. :innocent:
Sorry..
 
most annoying sport ever. lol

but my family love it so i cna just about bare it for them :)
Noo don't say that it's very interesting :lol:

Like you can see we are very passionate F1 fans here :D But I understand you though I have friends who can not understand why I'm interested in watching men driving around a circle..
 
Noo don't say that it's very interesting :lol:

Like you can see we are very passionate F1 fans here :D But I understand you though I have friends who can not understand why I'm interested in watching men driving around a circle..

it's just the sound of the cars, it's painful to hear lol 'brummmmmmmm brum bruuum brummmm'

what makes you girls love it so much?? seriously. :)
 
it's just the sound of the cars, it's painful to hear lol 'brummmmmmmm brum bruuum brummmm'

what makes you girls love it so much?? seriously. :)
NOo the sound is the best! :D Ask Kinga who saw them live!!

I really don't know why I'm watching F1 but once you start to watch the races you just can't stop! And it really is so exciting when there are big fights and you want your favourite driver to win so badly. Though nowadays there aren't so much great battles as there used to be which is sad.
I can't explain it better than that :scratch:Of course it's just about the person.. someone likes this and other likes something else..
 
it's just the sound of the cars, it's painful to hear lol 'brummmmmmmm brum bruuum brummmm'

what makes you girls love it so much?? seriously. :)
You must be kidding! There's nothing like the sound of a FERRARIIIIIII!!! :girl_in_love:
 
COME ON, GET IN THERE............LEWIS = WORLD CHAMPION!!!!!!!!!
Don't worry Ferrari guys there is always next year ;)
 
Cant believe I actually sat through motor racing and enjoyed it....well done Lewis!
 
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