Kimi Räikkönen Top Zitate
Er gilt als ruhig, wortkarg oder unterkühlt, genauso aber professionell, fokussiert, schnell und nervenstark. Neben fahrerischem Können beweist Räikkönen in der rauen Welt der Formel 1 auch Charakterstärke. Er fährt Bootsrennen im Gorilla-Kostüm, beantwortete die Fragen der Reporter eiskalt und er gewinnt Formel 1 Rennen. Diese Finne kann nicht verbogen werden und sagt genau das, was er denkt - wenn er etwas sagt. Viele Menschen - darunter Formel-1-Fans und Experten - denken, es ist ein Gerücht, aber es ist wahr: Kimi Räikkönen ist ein unterhaltsamer Mensch! Wenn man es nicht besser wüsste, könnte man fast meinen, der Finne lässt seine trockenen Sprüche mit der Absicht heraus, um zu Test, welche Journalisten seinen Humor verstehen und welche nicht. Die härtesten Aussagen können Sie hier nachlesen.
Place 45: Night before the race
Q: What do you do in the night before the race?
A: I sleep!
Place 44: Funny newspapers
What the papers write about me afterwards makes me laugh.
Place 43: A bit mad?
Q: Are you satisfied with the result? (Kimi again failed to score any point)
KR: Do you think I am?
Place 42: F1 driving is boring sometimes
Q: Is it true that sometimes you're bored in the car?
KR: Only when I am in front by a country mile, like in Melbourne last year. Then you are thinking about other things or you're playing with the buttons on the steering wheel. Then I suddenly missed a breaking point. This year unfortunately we haven't had such race.
Place 41: The silly press
Formula 1 would be a paradise without the media.
Place 40: Learning Italian?
Kimi at the Ferrari event 2007: I’m not going to a language school to learn Italian, that’s not what I came to do at Ferrari.
Place 39: Army service
If the army would be voluntary I wouldn’t go there.
Place 38: Just racing
Driving is the only thing I love about F1.
Place 37: Just 5th place…
Q: Kimi, what’s the 5th grid place like?
KR: It’s the 5th grid place.
Place 36: Wrong ERA
My life would be much easier had I been a F1-driver in the 70’s with the guys. I was definitely born in the wrong ERA.
Place 35: Kimi vs. Sebastian
Q: "I've heard Vettel can beat you in badminton."
KR: "We played a few games and I let him win."
Place 34: Just listen!
Q: Would you go to any other team than Ferrari?
KR: Probably not.
Q: Definitely not?
KR: I said probably not.
Place 33: Sauber, the boss
Q: What kind of relationship do you have with Peter Sauber? Is he a father figure or godfather?
KR: He is my boss.
Place 32: Realistic thinking
Q: "What are your aims for your first Rally in the WRC?"
KR: "To stay on the roads."
Place 31: Dancing is not his thing
Kimi on finish Independence-Day Party at the President’s castle: “I think I will skip the dancing part. Maybe someone else dances with Jenni if she wants.”
Place 30: Why Kimi became a race-driver
I have decided to do motorsports because I don´t have to get up there so early in the morning.
Place 29: Learning the hard way
Kimi about his 5 time roll-over at Rally Mexico 2010
KR: "Mexico is in the past. It went like it went. We have been learning rally the hard way."
Place 28: Interviews are so …boring!
Q: The most exciting moment during the race weekend?
KR: I think it's the race start, always.
Q: The most boring?
KR: Now.
Place 27: New strategy?
Kimi seems to have a new strategy to get rid of the journalists: ”Ah, go and interview Mikko Leppilampi. He likes to talk.”
Place 26: There is no willingness to talk
Kimi makes clear that the mean press doesn´t belong to one of his favorite conversation partners. (Thursday before the first race of the Saison)
KR: Come back tomorrow. I have still holidays today.
Place 25: The important helmet
Q: The helmet has a special meaning for many drivers. How important is it to you?
KR: It protects my head.
Place 24: Finnish music
Q: What is on your I-Pod?
KR: Mostly Finnish music, all sorts. You wouldn't know, so it doesn't matter what I say.
Place 23: A very precise statement
Kimi tells about the track conditions at the new Formula 1 circuit in Singapore:” It is narrow in some places, wide at the other - it depends on where you are.”
Place 22: A new weatherman?
I don't care about the weather conditions. It’s all the same, if it rains or not.
Place 21: Is Kimi lazy?
Q: Kimi, how is the cooperation in the Team. Do you get along with everyone?
KR: Yeah it´s fine. But they have a much harder time with me than I with anyone else.
Q: What do you mean?
KR: I am a bit lazy sometimes.
Place 20: Hopefully he only read it
"I read somewhere that I drive with the luck of a drunk."
Place 19: He really doesn´t know??
Q: What´s about your new Tattoo? Is it permanently?
KR: I don´t know.
Place 18: Donut at Belgium GP
On a question about his donuts at the end of the last year's Belgium Grand Prix, his reply was: "I lost it!"
Place 17: Alonso?
Räikkönen isn't affected by Alonso's mental games. “I couldn’t care less what that man thinks!”
Place 16: Kimi´s opinion about Lewis Hamilton
Lewis Hamilton said that winning his first race felt better than having sex. Kimi´s reply to that was: "Maybe he never had sex."
Place 15: What Kimi makes flip out
Q: Kimi, have you ever got angry about anything, and jumped up and down and shouted?
KR: Yeah, many times but of course you’re not happy if you retire or something but I guess it mostly happens more in normal life than in racing.
Q: Can you give us examples?
KR: No, not really.
Q: What kind of things makes you angry in normal life, as you say?
KR: If you keep asking questions like those.
Place 14: What a special ritual
Q: Do you have any special rituals when the helmet is concerned like many other drivers have?
KR: I wipe it, so that I can see well.
Place 13: Kimi is worried about overlapping
Q: What advice would you give to the rookies Nico Rosberg and Scott Speed?
KR: I hope that they are good in making room!
Place 12: Kimi´s stay in Canada
Q: Kimi, how you spent the days here in Canada before the GP in Montreal?
KR: I arrived here on Tuesday. So I was here yesterday.
Place 11: Italian?? Nothing for Kimi
An Italian interviewer tries to get Kimi to say something in Italian.
KR: You can talk Italian if you want to.
Place 10: Kimi thinks one question further
Q: "Are you ill? Your voice sounds a bit cracked."
KR: "Yes, it does. But not because of vodka."
Place 9: What a special ritual
Q: Do you have any special rituals when the helmet is concerned like many other drivers have?
KR: I wipe it, so that I can see well.
Place 8: Schumi wants to be well represented?
I’m not interested in what people think about me. I’m not Michael Schumacher.
Place 7: Without any words
Q: What makes TAG Heuer (Kimi´s main-sponsor) so special?
KR: It’s ok.
Place 6: About whom he is talking here?
Kimi answered a question about his lack of emotion after winning a grand prix.
KR: It's not my style. Yeah, winning feels good, but I'm not the type of guy who jumps up and down and rubs it in everyone's face.
Place 5: Kimi´s extraordinary hobby
Q: Kimi, do you have any hobbies?
KR: I collect walnuts.
Place 4: Kimi´s very own payoff with Ferrari
At the last race for Ferrari in 2009
Q: "Come on; say something in Italian - as a goodbye for the Tifosi!"
Kimi: "No. I would have learnt it next year."
Place 3: Things you can do in Finland
Well, in summer there's fishing and shagging. And in winter the fishing is bad.
Place 2: The classic
Q: Kimi Räikkönen doesn’t seem interested in the proceedings going on up there. Kimi, you missed the presentation by Pele.
KR: Yeah.
Q: Will you get over it?
KR: Yeah. I was having a shit.
Place 1: Hoist by his own petard
Q: Gossip Media asks how have you prepared for the Saison?
KR: I usually get to read from your magazines what I have done.
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