I remember watching an interview with Coulthard where he was praising the natural speed ability of Raikkonen " This guy can drink all night, sleep in the pits at the track then get woken up, gets into the car and lays out the fastest time of the day". The guy really was talented, imagine what he could have achieved if he really committed himself. And his character is another thing that will be sorely missed in F1.
@@RedPhroggz that's what makes it so great, if he did care, it could of hold him back, sometimes not to over think it and not give a damn is the best way to be in a competitive soirt, Greatesst example is England football team... cared so much they choke every world cup.
He warmed up the tires by breaking slightly harder at corners. Same tire degredation, but more heat. Everybody does it these days, Räikkönen was just ahead of the curve. People forget that Häkkinen handpicked Räikkönen as his successor out of the British Formula Renault and just told everyone to deal with it until Ferrari had enough and paid him not to drive for two years.
No, because the Michelins warmed up very quickly compared to the Bridgestones. Kimi won that race thanks to the safety car. Schumacher gained up massively on Kimi's lead up to the point of the safety car but had too few laps left to get up to temperature after restart. I was there.
@@ArielGonzalez1 what on earth does AI even mean anymore? frame interpolation is now AI? do we just throw this word at anything mildly technological? I remember when achieving AI meant the hypothetical future point in time at which a computer would first achieve consciousness/sentience. now apparently its a windows movie maker 2012 feature
@@jakubkaaska1720 I think 2004 was actually the worst. He had 8 DNFs in 18 races all from car problems. The best one was at Hockenheim with his rear wing just flying off
@@maza19 Yeah, agree, but i think that every driver (and his fans) would totally love to see (if necesary) issues that makes bad year into horrible year, more than seing even 1 issue in title-winning-possibility season... (vide: 1986 Mansell (Australia) 2008 Massa (Hungaroring))
@@emilekaram6094 You can transfer their best performance even outside Ferrari, and try to put them (in your imagination) to 1 team. I said about measuring their best drives while only in Ferrari.
It's not as simple. If his tyres are getting to warm, you are not going to want to warm them more. Also, warming the tyres means using them more, which might not be as big a problem in 2004 with the long lasting Bridgestones, but today with the soft pirellis that means a lot. You might aswell not consume the tyres as much as you can, then only warm them up once you're about to get underway the next lap (drivers get a warning beforehand so they know when the safety car comes in).
All rest of the grid in all history of F1 had to warm up tires. Iceman can go full speed on cold tires. His race engineer to him by radio: Kimi, our calculations says that warming up tires makes them better... Kimi: Bwoah!
so correct behavior. so many athletes have all kinds of dumb routines like spinning around 3 times and spitting over shoulder in the locker room before a match.
