Doesn't use simulators, doesn't do track walks. Was found sleeping under a table 20 minutes before his first F1 race start on his career (he only had 23 race starts before that in junior series.) and he finished 6th. It's a theme that's continuing, dude loves to sleep.
Love his direct approach but what he never understood is that the media indirectly help fund his salary and facilitated his continued position in F1 (in addition to his raw talent). It worked out well because it was so entertaining for the masses and ended up increasing views in any case.
@@NS-pn4sk So, your boss is allowed to pester you with the same dumb stupid questions that have no merit, don't improve your work or the work for the workplace, because he's paying your salary? The fact THAT so many viewers loved Kimi for grey rocking those dumb reporters that added nothing to the viewing experience should be a sign for them. I for one could do without all the circus. Just give us good racing, instead of quabbling over whether someone drove an inch over a track line.
@@givmi_more_w9251 if not for the media and marketing, Kimi (or any other F1 driver for that matter) would not be as famous. Also the media is not his boss, they are his and his bosses' partners. Big difference. Their job is to ask questions. I agree that many of the questions are bait to capture headlines.
@@NS-pn4skstupid take. These team owners only look at money and good results. So if they pick a driver mostly because of personality, they're basically throwing away money and future investors
It must be a Finnish thing. Hakkinnen wasn't so media shy but had that similar "You're being way too serious so I'm just going to fuck with you a bit because it amuses me" kind of mischievous sense of humour. It's to be commended.
Also Juha Kankkunen, a finnish rally driver during the 80`s did this too. Finns tend to have a very dry sense of humor, so if you ask us stupid questions in a serious tone, we will reply to it the same way.
@@mouloudo as a finn I can confirm if you want a finn to talk, give them a few bottles of alcohol. me and my friends some how end up talking about the summary of wwii...
And he retires... What a driver, and what a personality of a grid. We will miss him. That day in monaco when he retired and just walked towards his yacht was priceless.... :D
For anyone who has never met Finnish fans at a grand prix, here are a couple of examples of what they're like. Jerez 1997: A Finnish fan deafens everyone with an airhorn every time Häkkinen drives past. Eventually the gas runs out. He disappears and returns with half a dozen cans of beer and some duct tape, opens a can of beer and drinks half of it, tapes the can to the airhorn and shakes it, then repeats the process and deafens everyone for the rest of the race. Hungaroring 1986: Lunchtime in the hotel bar. Everyone having a coffee or a glass of wine or beer. In come a few Finnish fans who are clearly already well oiled and ask what one of the spirits is and what it tastes like. They order one each. They then order a bottle of it each. They then order a bottlle of EVERY spirit on the shelf each and with big smiles they disppear off, I assume to find a bar which has some different spirits.
Just regular man who likes what every man likes and he have money to do that. Kimi the most unique guy in F1 ever! If he was lunatic like every champion he would be best ever 100%. Schumi was 1000% in racing
Grojean sat there looking at Kimi with a beer like "shit, I'm busting a nut an getting nowhere, Kimi comes in, does as he likes, gives no fucks, wins, drinks beer an eats ice creams"!
Great compilation, and thanks for uploading. When I first saw Räikkönen in the 2009 Belgian Grand Prix, admittedly I didn't like him, because he didn't look like he enjoyed winning at all. But I started to have a change of heart when he said "leave me alone, I know what I'm doing!" in the 2012 Abu Dhabi GP, but the change of heart was complete in the postrace interview... Even if he can't show emotion, at least he has a great sense of humor!
Funniest moment was when Kimi overtaked like 15 cars in few laps. That was really fun to watch. Not at all common in pre-flipflop-joke-rearwing era F1 races.
actually the first person who was given that nickname was a finnish long distance runner, in the 1920s. hakkinen earned it because of his battles with schumacher. keke was the first one in F1 to earn it kimi is rarely called that, he is more known as the iceman and bottas.. well he has to go some way to get it
A legendary driving coach that 17 out of 22 current F1 drivers have visited (can't remember his name now) said that the most talented natural drivers and also the fastest have been Hamilton and Räikkönen. Hamilton was 2s slower than target time on first lap but matched it on second try and went faster on third. Kimi was slower at start. But he consistently improved lap after lap until he had beaten Hamiltons time.
