Kimi Raikkonen's Greatest-Ever Drive Through The Field | 2005 Japanese Grand Prix |  

On it🤝

Something I am sure fans can universally agree on

Come on everybody hit that like button 👍

@Християн Димов ??

l'm a 100% agreed right to you. 👍

What an era !!! Grid filled with 4 teams each having championship winning cars with them fighting each other..

It's a shame that he won WC only once.

Never forget his amazing first season with the prancing horse! 2005, 2007 are his masterpiece.

@@delafereolivier7682 Tu oublies 2003, il est passé à 3 points de gagner un championnat du monde avec une voiture dépassée!

What radio????

In his whole career Kimi was amazing driver not only back in 2005!

@@nikosv9056 that is true!

When young V6-era drivers say "I need the DRS to overtake", Kimi scoffs and says "Bwoah, amateurs"

Pretty sure in the main highlights he also performs the same move on Schumacher

Even better than Alonso vs Schumi at 130R IMHO 🙃

I almost cry remembering that glorious 2000s era!

Imagine drs and slicks on those bad boys 💀💀

refuelling too

No tyre changing if i recall correctly.

Everyone rally vote for Kimi? Let’s go lol

Still reluctant to say how McLaren was unreliable

Where can I vote for him?

@@AlexGraz4114 just write "driver of the day F1" during the race and you'll get the website on the first search result

They’ll probably just disregard the Kimi votes

That’s why I don’t judge drivers purely on stats alone

@@emiliofernandez7117 perfectly said! for me Michael, Mika, Lewis, Alonso, Kimi, Seb all go in the list of best drivers of the past 2 decades

to be fair Schumacher also went into the Ferrari team when they were pretty much at the lower bottom of the F1 league, he worked harder than any other driver and got Ferrari back to the top Still tho I'd also say that 2005 Kimi was definitly the faster driver!

Actually Kimi's and Michael's fastest laps are the true ones. Specially those set prior to full fuel era

@@heianorge6426 They were never at lower bottom. It's exaggerating. They were more like years like 2011 or such.

We? I was a hair off 3 years old back then! Y'all were lucky.....I was late! XD

2003-2007 was the pinnacle of F1 IMO.

@@broFH nah 2010 and 2012 were honestly the best years ever. I think 2021 is very close because it’s an amazing and drama filled battle between two titans. 2021 is better than 2005 because Alonso only won because Kimi had bad reliabiltu

@@dbabu51 if you only see it from point wise yes 2021 better because all square again in the final race. But if you see from action, overtake, side by side, wheel to wheel action then 2005 is better. 2 young aggressive driver against the senior of them all. Why I said it because I don't recall this year championsip contenders fighting side by side, wheel to wheel without hitting each other out, without running out wide, no just clean overtake.

@@ariefhf that’s what makes it so fun. So much drama between them and the teams and the crashes helped that

He had a nice little resurgence at Lotus as well, I remember that well!

Why not both? I think we'll remember him from both, what he was like, and what he did on the track.

I think ure beautiful

@@Xiphactinus Oh, for sure. I love his Lotus era so much.

@@foxjones_amv It's mostly for the newer gen fans that thinks like this. They thought Kimi is just this 'senile' old man, driving backmarkers car with sometimes saying funny things on the radio. Also F1 sosial media team make this worse by keep posting his 'funny radio' instead of his best racing moments. I'm a big Kimi fan and seeing this keep happening really annoyed me.

He only got what he wanted. Got the title he was happy and considered his mission finished, then he went on just because he liked it. Legendary

He did the Nico Rosberg before Nico himself can :v

@@hybridAbsol Unfortunately Nico was kinda lucky to win 1 title (Hamilton had bad luck on Malaysia), but Kimi was unlucky to win *only* 1 (like Mansell).

This is racing before the maFIA took over

How I wish I could go back to 2005

So well said, ended too quickly and abruptly, this was so emotional to read... imagine the kids who never watched a live race with engines screaming at 18-21k RPM

Grid girls!

Its truly unbelieveable, bro😩

I don’t speak Finnish but I felt this

@@yellowflag9945 Thank you Kimi that you've done every competition/race better, made paddock laugh and were during races the best driver. That is a translation

@@yellowflag9945 Oh, I forgot. Thank you, Kimi

@@yellowflag9945 Thank you!

Kiitos Kimi olet maailman paras ja aliarvostetuin kuljettaja Ansaitset 10 mestaruutta❤️

He deserved the 2003 and 2005 tittle more than the 2007 one. 2005 he was scary fast

A legend, not sure I could deal with the front end being that lively - his steering input is first class.

@@chamindujanith6337 just no. If it wasn't for bad luck/mclaren reliability he'd of got at least 3 wins and won the title in the 3rd best car

Great seeing this from a Fernando Alonso fan ✌🏼...

@@MiguelMedV man u cant deny talent when you whitness it

@@leomartin636 True, I hope both drivers go down very well remembered in history, number of titles never tell the whole story...

Absolutely true. Still I wouldn't say alonso didn't deserve the title, he did perform consistently great. However kimi was untouchable in some races

@@MiguelMedV Alonso and Kimi both achieved too little with their talents. In contrast to Hamilton and Seb.

Shame that the McLarens he drove were made up of glass...

2005 and 2003 should have been his, but the car didnt want to cross the finish line... ever lol

You forgot

nobody thinks that, only little kids

@@roastingminer6919 2005 ye not 2003, he finished almost every race of 03 in the podiums but it wasnt enough

No DRS, No Kers, just pure awesome.

@@ajstyles5704 no overtakes either

@@Xiphactinus much prefer fewer but ballsy overtakes rather than everyone waiting to get to the big straight to pass the guy in front with DRS like he's just standing there

@@Xiphactinus you say this in a comment section where the driver that won started in 17th LOL

Even 2012 Lotus season

fanmen i guess

F1 fans know him for both.

I know him for both lol

Well f1 fans know him for both but mostly his driving

I think Alonso had it worst when he joined Ferrari team

Yeah, people always forget that when they look at races from the past

and without tire change. Only refuelling

*cough hamilton brazil*

also worth mentioning he had an adrian newey chassis and the most powerful engine on the grid. not discrediting him but it played out similarly to hamilton in brazil last month

@@no1washerezz That Mercedes was far from being powerful and it had notorious reliability issues. Kimi suffered no fewer than 3 Friday engine failure which necessitate an engine replacement and a 10 place grid penalty (Silverstone, Magny-Cours, Monza). Honda was reckoned to be the most powerful as it was clocked producing 985 bhp at Suzuka.

yep, was thinking the same.

Lewis crashing in Max couple times, yeah....

Max, the media and the fans' favorite's pushing everybody off the track without penalties and causing crashes and damages tactic must be the pinnacle of grand prix racing for sure..

Believe it or not, but the 2002 cars were on average faster than the 2003 cars. I compared quali times and fastest laps of the first 10 races each year. A following year does not automatically mean the cars are faster. Over longer time spans, sure, they became faster and faster.

Max fans will 🤡

Max fans will somehow find a way to make him DOTD

Was gonna say the Dutch fans will definitely try to ruin it

@@sohambelge8318 lol like the Hamilton fans aren't way worse

@@sohambelge8318 tf ? U hate Kimi or something!

He was 2 points behind in 2003 too...if it wasn't for 1 dnf which was because if the car he would have won by 2 points ...

​@@greybo4034 That is the nature of F1. There are dozens of ''if cases'' especially in the past when reliability was a major factor.

MP4-22 is better.

shouldve won the title, but kept breaking down

Kimi being Kimi, he'll probably just go home like nothing happened

Or he'll just drive home in his Alfa F1 car :v

BWOAH

I don’t know

Buttons first win was pretty awesome too

And the most unreliable either

Because there's hardly any on-track action. Everything happens in the pits.