Communication Coach REACTS to Kimi Raikkonen (15 Classic Kimi Moments) 

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Met Kimi around 2010 in Monaco, he's actually a really kind and friendly guy in real life. No ego, just Kimi.

I swear, there is probably not a single person who loves F1 and doesn't like Kimi. He is a legend in any meaning of the word.

He's Finnish. Being blunt and in-your-face level honest is just him being Finnish. It's a cultural thing. In Finland being direct and honest is valued way much more than being polite. Kimi just turns that up a notch.

My dad - Mark Slade - is the engineer guy on the radio for the "Massa! Massa!" clip, he always says that Kimi was one of his favourite drivers to work with because of his honesty :) they got on really well and my dad tailored the way he communicated to Kimi in a way that suited the both of them

"Leave me alone- I know what to do" is Kimi's most classic quote. He always seemed like he was happier battling for fifth place than leading by 15 seconds in first position.

Him pushing that photographer was definitely warrented because he got all up in Kimi space right before a race. During this time the drivers have to be completely focussed and in the zone so Kimi dealt with that annoyance as only kimi could

Funny story about kimi, when he was driving for lotus he got paid an extra 50k per point he scored, the team were not expected him or the car to be that good. He ended up gaining something silly like 12million in bonus point payments but lotus didn't have 12m to pay him. To this day they still owe him 6m I believe however they stated that if they paid that to him it would bankrupt the company and it would have to close down. Kimi said okay I don't want anyone to loose their jobs so just don't pay me. May have messed the story up abit but that's the gist

When Kimi came to the sport, F1 had turned into VERY "hygienic" and corporate. Drivers were instructed very carefully what they can and can't say, how to thank sponsors and "we give 110%".. all of that crap. So, when Kimi arrived we got immediately someone who just did not give a shit about any of that. And while teams tried to curb him, control him he amassed such a popularity that no team could touch him anymore: because it was that honesty that made him the fan favorite, that honesty was selling a LOT of merch and it was easy to get sponsors... His honesty worked as a shield against bullshit and we loved every moment of it. The new "class" of younger drivers are also now more open and i think that Kimi paved a way for that, the big wigs finally understood that F1 will sell better if they do NOT try to control drivers so much.

Finland has one of the best schools of F1 racers, they are mostly very cold and focused on driving, but Kimi surpasses them all with his honesty and directness. I adore him!

The "if thats legal" comment isnt about him not knowing the rules. He knows full well its against the rules, and he is just sarcastically calling it out

Few notes: that last clip, he was being sarcastic, about the pushing other guy, because FIA (formula management) wasnt doing anything about that, so raikkonen said ''if thats legal, I will do the same'' .. Also, there are few team radios where he sounds like a guy who is hard to work with, but thats not the case (lots of people in F1 paddock have only praises for him, 0 negativity).. Those are radios from the heat of the moment, cuted from actual happenings, so they can sound like that to the outsiders...

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I don't know why people keep saying Kimi doesn't give a shit. The man was literally having a shit

A great lesson to learn from Kimi is: be a good person both good to people and good at what you do, then you can be as honest and straightforward as you want and people will still love you.

When he launched his motocross team in Belgium i saw him and was kinda starstruck and was there with my little niece.. and he came over was super nice. And i got the feeling he doesn't mind fans in fact he appreciates them all.. just the cameras aren't his thing

Kimi is Kimi and we F1 Fans just love his easy going but straight personality incl his awesome dry humor :D He is the typical finish guy. Bottas is similar but on the other side, there is no second Kimi and we miss him!

Kimi is a legend! There is no one else like him. Truly his own man

I love that Kimi just doesn't care. Press's worst nightmare but I know the fans loved it. I wish the clip of him during Monaco 2006 would have been here. I know you would have gotten a laugh.

My friend met Kimi (i am jealous of that) in 2009 ( i guess) and he says that Kimi is very cool and talks normally like other humans when there are no cameras. Kimi is a legend, no one can be like him. Never.

That last one was clearly a sarcasm, he obviously knows the rule book. At least the most part of the rule book.

There are a number of things you need to take into account:- 1.The noise in F1 sometimes means drivers have to shout & sometimes reception quality means they can’t hear properly or they can’t be heard! 2.Every driver gets frustrated and shouts at their engineer. We are only hearing isolated snippets AND we hear more from Kimi because he is the most liked driver out there. So of course that gives an unfair comparison. 3.He is one of the greats that drove in far lesser teams toward the end of his career and he never once demanded special crews etc, so sometimes you will get people that “need to be told”. Despite what people think Kimi is driven to help push the team forward and is professional. 4. At the speed these guys are driving and the intensity of battle - there is NO time for niceties and blunt direct communication is Best!.They all know its not personal and speak only of respect off track!. 5.Whilst Kimi speaks clear enough English we must remember it is Not his first language and sometimes things get lost in translation. I prefer assertive honesty & bluntness, to passive- aggressive, untruthful, manipulative and scheming types in F1 of which there are many. This why Kimi is so well liked - you can see he is an honest, non-political, super talent - that doesn’t flaunt it- thats why we do it for him. 6.I would be pissed too if some idiot is sat almost directly over my clothes bag whilst Im cooling off & right in my face with a camera. Kimi turn to get stuff out of his bag and almost accidentally headbutts this cameraman because he's so close. Angry ?- I'd be tempted to punch the clown in the head. Some people are just too stupid and caught up in the hype of the sport - thats why Kimi loathed all these other aspects. There are countless acts of stupidity throughout his long career.

Kimi's a legend. Love his idgaf, brutally honest ways.

Kimi knows the rules and he knows what Max (driver, not reactor 😂) was doing was not allowed. It was more like: "if nobody isn't going to penalize him of doing that, why would I race him fairly either" to which his race engineer answered that he will take the matter to Charlie aka race director. Kimi didn't really just "fell" into racing. He needed to fight his way in because he isn't from whealty family. He actually used his first big paycheck from racing to renovate his family home so that there would finally be inside toilet (!). Though you are right on the fact that he is naturally talented driver and loves racing. In the "I spun" comment the funny part for most was not so much him not caring what happened to others but the fact that he didn't elaborate on why or how he spun as every other driver would have done. Also he cared about Massas penalty because Massa was the guy driving in front of him. 🙂 The OK was more like "Oh, so I don't need to rage from unfair punishments? That's nice." This was nice reaction but the clips in the original video were cut a bit too short for my taste or then it was about editing of this video. I hope it was the latter and you got to experience the clips properly. 🙂

Love your analysis! Kimi is a legend!! 🤩

I'm happy to see you reacting to Kimi Raikkonen! Hope to see you reacting to more F1 drivers.

Lol You did it! You did an analysis on Kimi 😂 Kimi is totally BELOVED by EVERYONE truly. Like only he could get away with the things he did.

Loving these F1 videos x

What a perfect analysis. Kimi is an extremely confident man who's very comfortable with what he is, what are his abilities, where he comes from and he doesn't care about anything else but driving fast and his family and friends

I think a good “series” of videos you should check out is the relationship between Michael Schumacher and Sebastian Vettel and the between Seb and Michaels son Mick. A slight bit of context: Both Micheal and Seb are German racers and when Seb joined the sport, Micheal took him under his wing and basically became his on track dad. The 7x WC taught Seb everything he needed to know. Micheal retired in 2006 and Vettel would go on to win 4 back-back WC and is arguably the most professional racer on the grid! Sadly in 2013 Micheal had a Skiing accident which resulted in him being paralysed and unable to talk. In 2019 his son Mick joined F1 and just like Micheal did to him, Vettel took Mick under his wing helped him as much as he could and again, became an on the track farther figure for Mick as well as the only real connection he has to his father in terms of asking him and talking to him about F1. Seb is retiring at the end of this year. (A side note, Seb is VERY vocal about the FIA (F1 governing body) and isn’t afraid to call them out when he doesn’t agree with them and I think it’s safe to say that his disagreement with them, has played apart in his decision to retire - as well as wanting to spend time with family more).

im one of your stay viewers, but as a finn (and a small f1 fan) i definitely love to see kimi content as well, hope you will watch more videos of him !!

Please react to charles leclerc being stupid for 15 minutes straight I think this video shows his true personality 😂😂

HELL YEAH MORE KIMI

I miss watching Kimi in F1. He really has a unique personality among F1 drivers. I would like to suggest reacting to funny F1 press conferences so you can see how the drivers respond to reporters and how they interact with other drivers. Maybe you can also try to react to other sports like tennis or basketball.

Thank you, this is great and spot on for Kimi. Loving your F1 videos. There are so many personalities you can choose from in F1. Definitely can do Sebastian Vettel, Fernando Alonso, Daniel Ricciardo just to name a few and then possibly some of the other current driver pairs like you did with Carlos and Charles would be very interesting.

Kimi always made me laugh. Love him.

Kimi telling the journalist he wasn't present cause he went to take a shit should've made it to his top 15.

He's brilliant! 🤣👍🏻

You definitely should react to Daniel Ricciardo! There are so many compilations of his best moments on here, it could easily be a multiple-part series in and of itself.

Yes!

my favorite Kimi moment was the preseason predictions thing that they opened at the end of the season. he said that he'll retire.

You need to check out the 2018 FIA awards ceremony (drunken Kimi)

Nice

The best radio is the one where Kimi’s water system has gone kaput and his engineer pretends he can’t hear him: “And yet you answer still” Won’t see his like again.

kimi is really one of a kind. he's a world champion yet unlike the others where they seem to be so focused n behaving like really zoned in n calculated atheletes, here was a really chilled out kimi w that idgaf attitude driving for ferrari after almost bankrupting his previous team bcs he was too good n his overperformance costed them tens of millions $. n he was racing at the highest level of racing just simply bcs he loves racing n not after the pride n glory.

I must be honest Kimi was one of my favorite drivers

sebastian vettel was in a clip or two and he's who im most interested to see!! partly bc hes my fav but also i think he is just all around the most interesting person on the grid. seems very very very well balanced in every aspect. i wonder if you'd feel the same or could use your knowledge to pick up on something that people less informed on communication and personalities cant pick up!

Man, I miss Kimi on the grid. In the superficial world of F1 he was just real…and cool.

max, he is a Fin. they dont even have a word for excited... that says a lot.

He is so Finnish! 😂 We Finnish ppl are honest and straightforward.

Absolutely need to do this for Daniel Ricciardo! Also would be awesome for you to compare what you saw of Max in the previous video compared to Max when he is with his current teammate, Checo Perez or his old teammate, Daniel Ricciardo. Both of which show you a very different side to Max!

I can't believe they didn't add the "I was taking a shit" clip in this compilation.

kimi is king

Kimi is the fastest driver of this century.

My thought on the first situation is that, somewhere before that, a reporter asked him for "some words" to the finnish fans and he (with his very own straight face) started to talk in finnish. This time, the reported asked specifically for "some wordsin finnish".. So I think (or at least I want to believe) he just made some sort of "private joke" while keeping his attitude of doing whatever he wants.

really was hoping to see the 2006 monaco gp in this one, missed chance

very few dislike Kimi...he is an absolute legend!!!

And there is the drink saga...

you are unfortunately wrong sir. we all love kimi

Apparently he actually wasn't hard to work with, well he doesn't talk much and when he's in the car, just don't disturb him. But the amount of information and feedback the engineers apparently got from him and how far ahead of thinking in race settings and so on, was quite massive according to a few interviews I've seen with his engineers. And when he was in Lotus, he nearly bankrupted the team, since he got a fixed bonus per point he earned.

Kimi is a legend, he really doesn't give a flying fuck. bless that man.

There is a video from F1 themselves that show some of the biggest classics that are missed here. Maybe fun to watch as well if you ever plan to revisit this.

I have the F1 Kimi shirt …leave me alone I know what I’m doing. Best Kimi quote. So sad he retired.

if we're talking abt teammate relationships, you should check out Pierre Gasly and Yuki Tsunoda videos as well !

At #3 photographer stepped on his gear and he flipped. When the driver is wearing a helmet it's not advised to go near. Kimi is one of the all-time best in sport giving comments for mechanics how to adjust car.

Massa getting a penalty can have serious implications for kimi's strategy. The comment about the rules was sarcasm.

Great video as always! I highly suggest checking out Kimi's old teamate Sebastian Vettel. He has the same "dont give a damn" mentality but has the opposite approach as he is more emphatic and quick witted than Kimi.

I love all of these reactions to the f1 guys! Would love if you maybe reacted to Sebastian Vettel! He's my favourite driver! :)

For what!?

Can you please share the background music you used here

Great video..... think the hole F1 is missing him since he's not F1 anymore this season. Not many people don't like him as fans... not sure about the people needing to work with him, that might be different. But did never hear somebody saying something negative about him being this way. Think we all love him for it. The closest to him will be Alonso... might be great to see him next... more fire in him for sure but also not caring what others think about him attitude.

I'd love for you to react to Mick Schumacher - it feel to me he's so skripted in interviews, only repeating stuff his PR Team/Management tells him to

kimi: bowah~

Kimi is straight to the point and doesn't give a shit. As you said, he's there to drive and nothing else. He isn't there for the fame or the glory that comes with being an F1 drivers. In this way, I feel that him and Max Verstappen are quite similar. They don't care what anybody thinks of them. They just want to drive and be left alone. I love them for that

Lol I miss him

He was a fast and clean driver when he wasn't having a sh.t.

He knows the rules. He was being illegally pushed off track and it didnt seem action was being taken. He was just saying if they're going to allow pushing off track he will do the same.

you should watch Kimi guess the rating of his co-driver in both F1 2021 and F1 2022 games, it's hilarious

you should watch the clip "Kimi's hobby" from drive to survive^^

The reason for the push was that the cameraman stepped on Kimi's stuff, by accident of course.

The main reason why Kimi was like that is because he didn't like reporters much :)

I am very curious about what you think of lance stroll

Honestly, if you watched his interview during his nascar return this year, you’d be surprised how much more relaxed he is. It shocked me, he went from barely saying anything in f1 in 20 years to borderline willing to be a college professor in his nascar interviews at Watkins Glen, despite crashing out early

it's more like a hobby for him

My favourite Kimi story is probably how he almost bankrupted Lotus by hugely exceeding expectations and way overperforming lol

It didn't have my two favorite Kimi moments. One was about wither or not his drinking water was available. The other being him demanding his gloves and steering wheel.

checkout the pitstop f1 podcast they talk with his mechanics, Marc Priestley, he is very lovely guy to work with in McLaren. A lot of fascinating and hillarious story about him.

WTF= Welcome to Finland. Kimis ultimate F1 radio collection? Thats legendary. Thumbs up for that?

There are only two things you need to know about Kimi: he loves racing. He hates the press.

I love your observations of the F1 drivers. I'm wondering what you would say about soccer players like Messi, Neymar, Beckham... Because I wondering what is real and what is media training... What do you think. I know you are a American so maybe you wont have as much bais as a European:-) I hope you wi give it a go. And I be watching more of your channel

You can hardly find someone who doesn't like Kimi

what car kimi likes to drive in civilian life the most? yes. he likes to drive a van. :D

i think Kimi hates stupid questions when he talk with other drivers and guys who knows what racing is about he can talk a lot (for him ofc :D)

Kimi is quintessentially Finnish.

You should have a look at Roy Keane. 👍🏻☺️

I really do like Daniel Ricciardo bc he is so into media and funny. Still Kimi answers to stupid questions as he should. Like completely different ends of drivers...well 1 has world championship and other doesn't.

I’m just here so I don’t get fined

i dont think anyone hates kimi

in the nordics, it's common to see it as polite to just be honest, not treating others like idiots who can't handle the truth

This is very classic Finnish behavior. You're not supposed to make a big deal of yourself or of your possessions/successes etc(other Nordic people know this as "Law of Jante" or "Jenteloven"). Finnish people also pride themselves on being super honest and straight forward and they absolutely loathe all kinds of small-talk.