A serious Iceman returned back to the podium
A serious Iceman returned back to the podium
F1 | Turun Sanomat
23:06
Kimi has now 26 consecutive races.
But he still didn't get the victory and left back to Switzerland almost as bugged as after earlier retirements.
– We wanted to win. Now we had a good chance for it. One can't be satisfied with 2nd position. It was a good day for the team though. We got more points than other teams and both cars were very fast, Kimi said.
– For me this was kind of a stop-and-push -race. The start was difficult. I got stuck behind Lewis Hamilton for too long. Once I got past him the car was good and the SC also helped. The rest of the race went well - except for the radio.
– The problem was that I could hear them, but the team couldn't hear me except during the last corners just before the pitlane. At that stage it was too late to talk.
– Without that problem the result might had been different. I wanted to take the risk, but now we did it this way. The order was to come and get new tires and try to win with them. Who knows what would had happened if we had acted differently.
Eric Boullier admitted that he didn't know if Räikkönen should had continued without stopping to the end.
– Kimi started to lose speed in laptimes and we didn't want to take the risk of him losing too much of it in the end. We thought that this was the best way to catch Vettel, Boullier said.
Useless to speculate with extra laps
Romain Grosjean was really fast during the most part of the race, but let his teammate through amicably.
– I would had passed him at that stage nevertheless, but Romain made it easy. Maybe a few extra laps would had helped, but it's useless to worry about it since we knew beforehand that if we intend to win, then we have to do it during these 60 laps, Kimi reminded.
Turun Sanomat, Nürburgring
HEIKKI KULTA
Fonte: Turun Sanomat / Tradução para o Inglês: Nicole
"Nós queríamos vencer. Agora tivemos uma boa chance para isto. A pessoa não pode ficar satisfeita com a segunda posição. No entanto, foi um bom resultado para a equipe. Conseguimos mais pontos do que os outros e os dois carros estavam rápidos".
Gosto amargo demais ser segundo quando se poderia, realmente poderia, ser primeiro. Nada mais a acrescentar!
Beijinhos, Ludy
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