Raikkonen happy for team, not for himself

  • Published on 28 May 2017 17:16
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  • By: Fergal Walsh

Kimi Raikkonen was left heartbroken after the Monaco Grand Prix after losing out on the race to his teammate. The Finnish driver claimed his first pole position in nine years yesterday, beating Sebastian Vettel to the top spot.

However, on race day where it all matters, Raikkonen lost out to Vettel, with the latter driver able to leap the pole-sitter in the pitstop phase of the race. Vettel boxed 5 laps after Raikkonen and perfected the overcut, coming out ahead of the Finn and progressing on to take the victory.

"I'm trying to figure out something that is impossible to know right now, at least from my side," said Räikkönen, when asked about the timing of his stop.

"It obviously wasn't ideal to end up behind a lapped car, it's something that definitely doesn't help. But the end result is what it is, so I have to see, we just finished the race. For the team it's good, but not for myself."

When he was asked if he would ignore team calls in the future, he said: "If you don't believe what you've been told, or how we work, it will get very complicated.

"We always try to work as best as we can. Today, as a team we wanted a 1-2, which happened, but for myself. Like I said, we just finished the race. Who knows? I guess there's some reason for everything that happens in life, but we'll have to see."

 

Fergal Walsh

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  • I stopped watching when I saw Seb coming out of the pits ahead of Kimi. It broke my heart. Kimi did the hard work on Saturday, it was a perfect lap, and then it turns out the overcut works better than undercut. What Kimi could do is to keep on pressing while he was in the front. If he had a 3 sec lead while he was in the front, I think the overcut would not work.

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    • May 29 2017 - 09:59
    • Wolfgang

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      I´m 100% sure Kimi´s lap in qualifying was good but not the maximum. You saw at the first sector from Seb´s last lap what has been possible with this car, especially in S1 he was really quick. He fucked up the other 2 sectors and was still nearly as quick as kimi..

      I´d like to have seen Kimi winning as well but in that circumstances Ferrari reacted the right way in order to cover Bottas. Since Kimi then had no traffic he should´ve gone quicker than vettel in those 4 laps which he sadly didn´t. I think Vettel couldn´t get his lap together in Qualifying was therefore on P2 at the start and won the race because he was overall the quicker one of the two..

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      • May 30 2017 - 11:35

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