Best racecraft on the grid. Post Race Analysis shows his amazing pass on Maldonado too, which TV missed. The pass on Button was simply incredible. Not many drivers on the planet could do that.
Also impressive seeing as 1. Singapore is a very difficult track to overtake and 2. Singapore is one of Raikkonen’s weaker tracks I’d say due to how narrow it is and how sharp the vast majority of the corners are. That overtake on Maldonado was incredibly close to a retirement too. Coming incredibly close to contact
People complain about nowadays TV direction, since i started watching ( first Schumi title) the TV direction missed a lot of important overtakes, crashes, pitstop and instead showed unnecessary replays and slow mos
@@stpbasss3773For a multiple WDC Vettel always shocked me with how bad his spatial awareness is. He did exactly the same thing in China & SPA 2016. Its one thing being ruthless but another being totally reckless. On each occasion he said something like - "I couldn't see Kimi on the other side" but on each and every occasion he saw Max was Not moving so automatically you have to know someone is there, especially when on each occasion he knew Kimi qualified 3rd and his radio would have told him. He's just a careless driver. People bang on about Hulkenberg but he's the same if you ask me..Happy to drive someone off, regardless of someone else being in the picture, must be a german thing.
Also worth noting that Sebastian Vettel sent his physio at the time, a fellow Finn, to see what he could do to help. I believe they joked about this in the cool down room before the ceremony along with Horner.
Look @.14 it explains it. Dr Aki Hintsa from Mclaren used to work with Kimi. If memory serves me correctly Kimi got a cortisone injection into the back - the pain was so severe - he ended up getting his operation a few weeks later. & Yes Hintsa got fired when Ron Denis from Mclaren found out.
In 2012 Kimi helped Lotus get 3rd on the Constructors Championship.. Which is about $70m and they would have made close to $50m in 2013. I see this ridiculous comment over and over again. LOTUS SENT LOTUS BROKE because they mis managed their finances and I think GENII capital did not actually put the money it was supposed to into the team. KIMI WAS PAID IN FULL IN 2014-5 because he was asked at Ferrari and he confirmed it!!. STOP SPREADING BULLSHIT!
I recently watched the full 2013 season (Had previously seen only the “Story of the season of every race”, and I was amazed by Kimi. It was in my opinion the same Kimi we had seen in Mclaren 2004-2005. Unbelievable speed and race craft, best tyre management and overtaking on the grid in 2013. It was such a pleasure watching him on form like that. Shame that he had to miss the last two races because of his surgery because he would have definitely finished 3rd in the championship.
Yes I agree and said the same when I watched the first race in Melbourne. The reason was mostly focused around those those ridiculously sensitive Pirelli tyres and you could see even as early as pre-season testing that Kimi had "worked them out" and got the jump on everyone in Melbourne. He has incredible feel for what the car is doing (more so than anyone I've ever seen) and that Lotus was well set up around him then, especially the first 3 months with the short wheelbase chassis. A little less so when Lotus experimented with the LWB and the aero concepts such as the ram air gills on the intake.Kimi urged the team to give him back the SWB chassis which they eventually did in Germany or Hungary and he was lightening quick again.
True, but then came Silverstone and nearly every car popped it's tyres. And Pirelli changed the tires to the 2012 spec which favoured Red Bull. With Kimi you have to appreciate all the small moments he does things better than anyone else.
That Lotus seemed to suit the hot conditions as it kept the tyres in the window. Kimi always excelled at circuits where you had to work really hard, and needed mental toughness like Monaco. Anyone who thinks “it wasn’t” his kind of track- doesnt have a clue.
I liked Eric Boullier, but notice how he tried to down play it by saying "he was helped with a brilliant strategy, and he pushed when we told him to push.." Lotus were copping the bad press about not paying anyone .They were blowing smoke about Grojean and trying to think they could succeed without a top flight driver..They were in la la land.
@@cemcemraikko3211 No-one likes him in Indy either. They're all sick of his late lunges that take drivers off track. Several of them have done it back to him - but even more blatantly, like actually just forcing him right off track without even thinking about the corner, just to make their point. He learned alot from Kimi by 2013 - but went back to his old ways since.
@@matz1974 Bwahahaha..go play with yourself..!!! He couldn't even beat Ocon in a Works Alpine, and was often passed by Kimi in the Sauber. The most over rated sportsmen of any era or any sport I have ever seen is Alonso. He's the biggest con artist and manipulator in all of F1 - and he's fooled unknowledgeable fans like you for 20 years. A guy that blackmails the boss and has been caught paying bribes to team mechanics and has divided teams he's worked for all his career. If he was as good as he says he is, why does not race people equally-- because HE CANT. & when he cant even gets beaten by rookies.
@@theelf152 And Ocon is the worst teammate ever, wouldnt have won Hungary 2021 without Alonso's help, yet he acted selfishly like a spoiled kid. Alonso was faster than ocon the whole time finished behind only thanks to 6 retirements and bad luck, Ocon's win in 2021 was only thanks to Bottas bowling, Mercedes strategy blunder and Alonso's defence. Just to remind you, Alonso carried the 2012 Ferrari tractor to almost winning the tile against much quicker cars, the worst sportmen of this era are Verstappen with Hamilton in close company
Dr. Aki Hintsa actually quit himself because Martin Whitmarsh got angry at him for treating people from other teams than McLaren. He didn't accept anybody telling him who to treat and help.
@@ciaronsmith4995 It’s talked about in Hintsas book. It doesn’t specify who made the call but just says that they parted ways after quite heated argument and that both parties wanted that.
Raikkonen did a lot of crazy races at the back of the field and finishing in the podium. My favourite is Fuji 2007, shit tyre choice from Ferrari and crazy pace through this torrential rain and with tonnes of spray.
Thank god someone else remembers it... Dts fans are all about how Hamilton gor bad luck in 2007 Nope. He and alonso had driver error dnf's. While kimi had 2 reliability dnf's and shitty strategy from Ferrari. Drives like fuji 2007 is what made him a champion.
What says a lot about Kimi is that his contract nearly bankrupted Lotus but he was still owed money from the team even after they paid what they could, he waived it! Knew that peoples livelihoods and jobs were at stake. Forever a top guy!
In my view it ended after the 2013 Silverstone GP. The new tyres and new tyre pressure and camber limits imposed after that race are in place until today and limited Kimi's ability to setup his car the way he wants.
@@Xiphactinus He should have won that race. His radio failed and he pitted since he wasn't sure what the strategy was going to be for the last few laps. He also didn't have the same crushing dominance over his teammate as he had previously. The new tyre compounds, as Kimi himself said, changed his form dramatically.
@@ciaronsmith4995 He might have won Hungary too if Lotus didn't pit him so early on the first stop too & we're still talking about Singapore!- obviously he was still on fire. He was great right up till his back surgery. Where he wasn't great was when Lotus stuck with that LWB chassis Despite his advise!! because that dumbass frenchman liked it !. Kimi had to fight to get it back and it was obvious he was like lightening on the SWB chassis! (Germany /Hungary ). The experimenting with the 'ears' on the intake did not help I think it gave the drivers inconsistent feel on the rear floor because a few times the team closed them up even when they remained on the car.
@@ciaronsmith4995 It was due to a Red bull Pirelli secret agreement, they ruined the 2013 champiosnhip battle and de facto ended Fernando and Kimis peak era
Him being owed millions still by that nonsense team and Kimi deciding "whatever bwoah I don't really care much" is comically based. The man just races cars and doesn't give a damn beyond that
Whatt really annoyed me about this episode is that, despite the team owing Raikkonen MILLIONS since the year before even, and all his great performances he continued doing, was the sheer arrogance of the management inside that team. Of course what they wanted in the end was Kimi to walk so they had a better argument in court...
Well he was in top5 highest paid athletes of the WORLD in 2007 and 2008 and his net worth was in 2013 nearly 200 million$. Of course lost income, unpaid salaries and broken contract will boost lack of motivation but he had already made his money big time before that so I guess that's where he actually started to call F1 "just a hobby".
kimi with a broken nose, half an ear missing, broken jaw, stomach pain, chest infection, two broken legs, gangrene in his feet, achilles injury reporter: Are you gonna race tomorrow? kimi: mwoah why not?
@@ciaronsmith4995 That was really childish from Whitmarsh, if he fired Hintsa just because Button failed to score a podium😂 How about building a faster and reliable car and sorting out the management instead?
He is still completely biased towards anyone with the initials LH that’s all. It’s so annoying listening to the all English announcers in f1. their bias is a joke and it’s very off putting to me as I don’t give a flip who brundle likes or doesn’t
Hard disagree, read my community post on Kimi's Lotus Years. Kimi outperformed that car and was so good they couldn't even afford to pay him. They stopped developing their car mid-season both years. Nobody would do better, materially, than Kimi did both years in the races he competed in. A few points here and there at most. Kimi adapted to the early 2013 Pirelli tyres unbelievably well. That was the closest we saw to McLaren Kimi in a long time until they changed the tyres again. If you want to say 2008, 2014, 2015 and 2017 were poor, go right ahead. But 2012 and 2013 were stunning campaigns from Kimi. Grosjean underperformed in the races, yes.
@@cemcemraikko3211 The secret tyre test after Silverstone held by the invincible duo Red Bull -Pirelli and a new rule about tyre pressure ruined the champiosnhip fight, Kimi and Fernando were there in the first half
Best racecraft on the grid. Post Race Analysis shows his amazing pass on Maldonado too, which TV missed.
The pass on Button was simply incredible. Not many drivers on the planet could do that.
Also impressive seeing as 1. Singapore is a very difficult track to overtake and 2. Singapore is one of Raikkonen’s weaker tracks I’d say due to how narrow it is and how sharp the vast majority of the corners are. That overtake on Maldonado was incredibly close to a retirement too. Coming incredibly close to contact
@@SpeedZoneFTW Whenever I think of Kimi and Singapore I think of when Vettel and Max took him out after his amazing start.
People complain about nowadays TV direction, since i started watching ( first Schumi title) the TV direction missed a lot of important overtakes, crashes, pitstop and instead showed unnecessary replays and slow mos
@@stpbasss3773For a multiple WDC Vettel always shocked me with how bad his spatial awareness is. He did exactly the same thing in China & SPA 2016. Its one thing being ruthless but another being totally reckless. On each occasion he said something like - "I couldn't see Kimi on the other side" but on each and every occasion he saw Max was Not moving so automatically you have to know someone is there, especially when on each occasion he knew Kimi qualified 3rd and his radio would have told him. He's just a careless driver. People bang on about Hulkenberg but he's the same if you ask me..Happy to drive someone off, regardless of someone else being in the picture, must be a german thing.
Also worth noting that Sebastian Vettel sent his physio at the time, a fellow Finn, to see what he could do to help. I believe they joked about this in the cool down room before the ceremony along with Horner.
From my understanding the physio was fired for his trouble…
Look @.14 it explains it. Dr Aki Hintsa from Mclaren used to work with Kimi. If memory serves me correctly Kimi got a cortisone injection into the back - the pain was so severe - he ended up getting his operation a few weeks later. & Yes Hintsa got fired when Ron Denis from Mclaren found out.
He nearly bankrupted that team. To this day, Lotus owe Kimi 8 million. What a legend.
Lotus : car so slow we'll give you 50k $ per point bonus
Kimi : gets 7 podiums and 2 wins
Lotus: 😶
Lotus: I’m never gonna financially recover from this.
@@attackhelicopter588 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
In 2012 Kimi helped Lotus get 3rd on the Constructors Championship.. Which is about $70m and they would have made close to $50m in 2013.
I see this ridiculous comment over and over again. LOTUS SENT LOTUS BROKE because they mis managed their finances and I think GENII capital did not actually put the money it was supposed to into the team. KIMI WAS PAID IN FULL IN 2014-5 because he was asked at Ferrari and he confirmed it!!.
STOP SPREADING BULLSHIT!
@@theelf152sir you are on a kimi fan page........
Kimi wearing sunglasses at night
I recently watched the full 2013 season (Had previously seen only the “Story of the season of every race”, and I was amazed by Kimi. It was in my opinion the same Kimi we had seen in Mclaren 2004-2005. Unbelievable speed and race craft, best tyre management and overtaking on the grid in 2013. It was such a pleasure watching him on form like that. Shame that he had to miss the last two races because of his surgery because he would have definitely finished 3rd in the championship.
Kimi in the first half of 2013 was the best driver in F1. He was unreal I was saying the same thing. Perfect.
More like he wasn’t being paid and he fucked off
Yes I agree and said the same when I watched the first race in Melbourne. The reason was mostly focused around those those ridiculously sensitive Pirelli tyres and you could see even as early as pre-season testing that Kimi had "worked them out" and got the jump on everyone in Melbourne. He has incredible feel for what the car is doing (more so than anyone I've ever seen) and that Lotus was well set up around him then, especially the first 3 months with the short wheelbase chassis. A little less so when Lotus experimented with the LWB and the aero concepts such as the ram air gills on the intake.Kimi urged the team to give him back the SWB chassis which they eventually did in Germany or Hungary and he was lightening quick again.
True, but then came Silverstone and nearly every car popped it's tyres. And Pirelli changed the tires to the 2012 spec which favoured Red Bull. With Kimi you have to appreciate all the small moments he does things better than anyone else.
That Lotus seemed to suit the hot conditions as it kept the tyres in the window. Kimi always excelled at circuits where you had to work really hard, and needed mental toughness like Monaco. Anyone who thinks “it wasn’t” his kind of track- doesnt have a clue.
Almost won at the Nurburgring that year as well!
Bahrain too he was second in both 2012&2013, Barcelona and Valencia too Lotus was quick
I liked Eric Boullier, but notice how he tried to down play it by saying "he was helped with a brilliant strategy, and he pushed when we told him to push.." Lotus were copping the bad press about not paying anyone .They were blowing smoke about Grojean and trying to think they could succeed without a top flight driver..They were in la la land.
grosjean was among the worst drivers ever raced in f1, and it was also a joke how lotus tried to make something out of him.
@@cemcemraikko3211 No-one likes him in Indy either. They're all sick of his late lunges that take drivers off track. Several of them have done it back to him - but even more blatantly, like actually just forcing him right off track without even thinking about the corner, just to make their point. He learned alot from Kimi by 2013 - but went back to his old ways since.
@@cemcemraikko3211 with an Alonso tier drivers Lotus would have won much more in the 2012-2013 period
@@matz1974 Bwahahaha..go play with yourself..!!! He couldn't even beat Ocon in a Works Alpine, and was often passed by Kimi in the Sauber. The most over rated sportsmen of any era or any sport I have ever seen is Alonso. He's the biggest con artist and manipulator in all of F1 - and he's fooled unknowledgeable fans like you for 20 years. A guy that blackmails the boss and has been caught paying bribes to team mechanics and has divided teams he's worked for all his career. If he was as good as he says he is, why does not race people equally-- because HE CANT. & when he cant even gets beaten by rookies.
@@theelf152 And Ocon is the worst teammate ever, wouldnt have won Hungary 2021 without Alonso's help, yet he acted selfishly like a spoiled kid. Alonso was faster than ocon the whole time finished behind only thanks to 6 retirements and bad luck, Ocon's win in 2021 was only thanks to Bottas bowling, Mercedes strategy blunder and Alonso's defence. Just to remind you, Alonso carried the 2012 Ferrari tractor to almost winning the tile against much quicker cars, the worst sportmen of this era are Verstappen with Hamilton in close company
Dr. Aki Hintsa actually quit himself because Martin Whitmarsh got angry at him for treating people from other teams than McLaren. He didn't accept anybody telling him who to treat and help.
I heard Martin forced him out but ok.
@@ciaronsmith4995 It’s talked about in Hintsas book. It doesn’t specify who made the call but just says that they parted ways after quite heated argument and that both parties wanted that.
@@ciaronsmith4995 doesn't sound too much different from what they said in that comment tbh.
@@tobyhall8048 Probably right.
Raikkonen did a lot of crazy races at the back of the field and finishing in the podium. My favourite is Fuji 2007, shit tyre choice from Ferrari and crazy pace through this torrential rain and with tonnes of spray.
Thank god someone else remembers it...
Dts fans are all about how Hamilton gor bad luck in 2007
Nope. He and alonso had driver error dnf's. While kimi had 2 reliability dnf's and shitty strategy from Ferrari.
Drives like fuji 2007 is what made him a champion.
@@amalkallarackal9293 China as well, would have won even without Hamilton's mistake
That lotus is so beautiful
That pass on Maldonado! Holy shit that would've gone horribly wrong if it was someone else
That pass would have gone wrong if Maldonado channeled his inner Maldonado
His driving skill still give me a chill.
What says a lot about Kimi is that his contract nearly bankrupted Lotus but he was still owed money from the team even after they paid what they could, he waived it! Knew that peoples livelihoods and jobs were at stake. Forever a top guy!
My favourite podium trio
after 2013 was that when his prime ended
In my view it ended after the 2013 Silverstone GP. The new tyres and new tyre pressure and camber limits imposed after that race are in place until today and limited Kimi's ability to setup his car the way he wants.
@@ciaronsmith4995 nah Germany that year was the last of his good streak, pushed Vettel for the win
@@Xiphactinus He should have won that race. His radio failed and he pitted since he wasn't sure what the strategy was going to be for the last few laps. He also didn't have the same crushing dominance over his teammate as he had previously. The new tyre compounds, as Kimi himself said, changed his form dramatically.
@@ciaronsmith4995 He might have won Hungary too if Lotus didn't pit him so early on the first stop too & we're still talking about Singapore!- obviously he was still on fire. He was great right up till his back surgery. Where he wasn't great was when Lotus stuck with that LWB chassis Despite his advise!! because that dumbass frenchman liked it !. Kimi had to fight to get it back and it was obvious he was like lightening on the SWB chassis! (Germany /Hungary ). The experimenting with the 'ears' on the intake did not help I think it gave the drivers inconsistent feel on the rear floor because a few times the team closed them up even when they remained on the car.
@@ciaronsmith4995 It was due to a Red bull Pirelli secret agreement, they ruined the 2013 champiosnhip battle and de facto ended Fernando and Kimis peak era
Amazing drive.
Grande Kimi
The final year of the great sounding cars
And that's him in a shitbox. Imagine if Lotus has more money and better management. Kimi can get another title.
He didn't have any problem to get out of the car, did he? We all love Kimi partly because of his no bullshit attitude.
Kimi was on painkillers and his car wasn't bouncing around for two hours now was it?
In Aki Hintsas book ( the doctor) Kimi couldnt even properly speak bc of the pain, he just said to do anything to make it stop and it was really bad
He had cortisone shot in his back - thats why!
Him being owed millions still by that nonsense team and Kimi deciding "whatever bwoah I don't really care much" is comically based. The man just races cars and doesn't give a damn beyond that
Whatt really annoyed me about this episode is that, despite the team owing Raikkonen MILLIONS since the year before even, and all his great performances he continued doing, was the sheer arrogance of the management inside that team. Of course what they wanted in the end was Kimi to walk so they had a better argument in court...
Well he was in top5 highest paid athletes of the WORLD in 2007 and 2008 and his net worth was in 2013 nearly 200 million$. Of course lost income, unpaid salaries and broken contract will boost lack of motivation but he had already made his money big time before that so I guess that's where he actually started to call F1 "just a hobby".
@@moonchant in 2007 Kimi was earning $51M - he was 2nd in the world of sport Only to Tiger Woods $100m.
kimi with a broken nose, half an ear missing, broken jaw, stomach pain, chest infection, two broken legs, gangrene in his feet, achilles injury
reporter: Are you gonna race tomorrow?
kimi: mwoah why not?
You might be cool but not as kimi wearing sunglasses in night as cool
kimi so cool
@@Parvician yessir
I didnt know that was the reasoning behind hintsas firing
Yes Whitmarsh was furious as Kimi took the podium away from McLaren (McLaren got 0 podiums that season) and then Hintsa "left" the team.
@@ciaronsmith4995 That was really childish from Whitmarsh, if he fired Hintsa just because Button failed to score a podium😂
How about building a faster and reliable car and sorting out the management instead?
@@Firebolt1729 probably why Mclaren ended up at the back of the pack in the following seasons.
Sounds like another case of Fisichella at Renault.
@@TheUKNutter ?
Is it just me or Brundle was always salty with any achievements of Kimi and Seb? He was more baised back in the day than now.
Just look at the 2017 season, especially him purposefully ruining Seb's best overtake of the season in spain
He is still completely biased towards anyone with the initials LH that’s all. It’s so annoying listening to the all English announcers in f1. their bias is a joke and it’s very off putting to me as I don’t give a flip who brundle likes or doesn’t
disagree, Martin has always been full of praise for Kimi
@@Beef7599 It's not about disrespect , it is about downnplaying achievement of a non British driver.
@@thelyinglama218 again, I disagree
That Lotus had so much potential. What a shame it was wasted by Grosjean and post-McLaren Kimi.
Hard disagree, read my community post on Kimi's Lotus Years. Kimi outperformed that car and was so good they couldn't even afford to pay him. They stopped developing their car mid-season both years. Nobody would do better, materially, than Kimi did both years in the races he competed in. A few points here and there at most. Kimi adapted to the early 2013 Pirelli tyres unbelievably well. That was the closest we saw to McLaren Kimi in a long time until they changed the tyres again. If you want to say 2008, 2014, 2015 and 2017 were poor, go right ahead. But 2012 and 2013 were stunning campaigns from Kimi. Grosjean underperformed in the races, yes.
you have no idea. Kimi could have become a champ with lotus in 2013, if the team didnt stop supporting him mid season. He had a very strong start.
@@cemcemraikko3211 The secret tyre test after Silverstone held by the invincible duo Red Bull -Pirelli and a new rule about tyre pressure ruined the champiosnhip fight, Kimi and Fernando were there in the first half
what do you meant by that??it is the opposite . kimi did very great job in lotus.