Kimi Raikkonen: The champion without a smile

Aos fãs de Kimi, vale a pena a leitura do artigo abaixo. Boas recordações e uma visão sem preconceitos é sempre agradável quando o assunto é o Iceman.

Kimi Raikkonen: The champion without a smile

His name entered history on October 21, 2007 when he was crowned champion, already called 'Iceman' he let a smile show, is there something else behind this cold and extremely fast person?

DANIEL MARTIN 26/06/2012 - 02:34 - Follow me on VAVEL 

Kimi Raikkonen: The champion without a smile

We all remember Fernando Alonso's over his own Renault shouting a loud "Take that!" while in his face we saw the happiness of a brand new world champion. Every driver dreams of winning a championship, they live for it and their efforts focus only on that road. So far everything right, but there is a Finn who has speed instead of blood, the man of a thousand and one faces, and all without showing a smile.

Kimi-Mattias Raikkonen, thus this driver is called, has been born in Finland. Country of champions, despite its small population and climatic conditions, has always been able to give large rally and F1 racers. It was always known these guys as 'cool' but this man surpasses all boundaries.

Anyone who follows some of this 'media circus' (as he calls it) probably thinks that Kimi has always been an irregular driver who, in textual and too sincere words, 'he couldn't care less'. Nothing is further from reality, this week as the other drivers were exercising at the gym, the Finn decided it was the ideal time to go enjoy the beaches of Valencia on his yacht. But here's something to be corrected, Kimi Raikkonen has, besides his two runners-up, a world title. Do 'Iceman' is irregular? This question is tricky, although it may seem, Kimi's successes have been based on his own strength, speed, combined with consistency, make him an unstoppable driver. 

I do not come to speak of those races in Spa in which Kimi became for a while, the king of this sport, or when he changed his McLaren or Ferrari for a plane destroying the circuit's records. I won't uncover anything when I say that Kimi Raikkonen is one of the fastest drivers in the history of Formula 1 with his more than 35 fastest race laps. 

"I wish fate suddenly gives me reasons to smile again like that day in Brazil" 

On October 21, 2007 people made bets on whether the champion would be a lively and quarrelsome Lewis Hamilton or an already crowned Fernando Alonso. Nobody expected that Kimi was behind them, waiting for his chance to get his awaited crown (though never expresed it) on his part. While some were engaged to complain about Mclaren's alleged favoritism, others simply had their heads placed on the track, knowing they had to stretch her little chance of winning the most. 

The always questioned Felipe Massa would make the pole that day, followed by Lewis Hamilton. Kimi would come in third place while Fernando Alonso was right behind him. Everything was on Lewis' favour but experience and coolness would be imposed on all the talent that went beyond the English boy. 

A not very attractive grand prix for the English or Spanish fans but for the Finnish followers. Ferrari dominated the race from start to finish and a pit play qualified as 'team orders', Kimi Raikkonen won the glory after winning the race, taking almost a minute to Fernando Alonso and outlaping Lewis Hamilton. 

How did Kimi felt on his last lap? At first glance, for him this last lap seemed like winning a game of cards to his friends, but as he himself has said, "I do not feel like jumping from joy, at that time I was happy, but I'm not very effusive." Raikkonen showed his human side after crossing the finish line first, for once letting out those feelings of joy that had never appeared in him for a moment. 

And so this Finnish guy, so criticized by irregularity, his turbulent private life and his alleged carelessness towards his work as a teammate and as a team member, remained in the background, giving way to what really matters, the smile of a champion, but even though he will be remembered for moments like the one in Malaysia, which he descended from his car under the rain to go to the garage to eat an ice cream while his crew remained on the grid with his car, he always be that, a champion. 

With his return to the sport, many people are looking forward to see his eternal 'no smile' at the top of the podium, and as he said, "I wish destiny soon grants me reason to smile again like that day in Brazil." 

Fonte: www.vavel.es / Dica e tradução: Whatever

Kimi gostaria de um sorriso como aquele dia do Brasil novamente. Eu só gostaria de ter de volta a alegria de vê-lo correr novamente, porque de verdade, eu ainda não a senti como antes. E estou realmente chateada comigo mesma.

Beijinhos, Ludy