At this time, Kimi Raikkonen, the final Ferrari System 1 World Champion and a real icon of the game, celebrated his forty fourth birthday. Italian journalist and Ferrari insider Leo Turrini paid tribute to him by sharing unpublished insights on his weblog at quotidiano.web.
Leo Turrini: “I’ve hardly ever recognized a driver so linked to Ferrari like Kimi Raikkonen”
“Pleased birthday to KR7. He’s 44, and by a curious coincidence, that is additionally the week of the Austin Grand Prix, the place Kimi Raikkonen secured his final profession victory in 2018,” Leo Turrini begins.
He then displays on his relationship with the Finnish driver: “I’ve typically tried to elucidate how a mutual sympathy developed between us. Largely made up of silences. By occupation and maybe by nature, I’m somebody with logorrhea. It should be some form of poetic justice that I instinctively respect those that can measure their phrases. In any case, the world is filled with babblers who simply can’t use phrases correctly in any context. With Kimi, we trade messages once in a while. He is aware of that I do know, and good night time, that’s sufficient for us.”
He goes on to share a humorous anecdote from the time of COVID: “One of many funniest issues I’ve completed in the middle of an undeserved profession is a Zoom dialog with him to advertise the Italian version of his biography. At one level, I managed to make him snigger. A mission unattainable for a journalist!” – he identified.
Certainly, Kimi Raikkonen is understood for his aloofness in direction of the media (and extra). Nevertheless, Leo Turrini desires to emphasise: “Regardless of his obvious detachment, I’ve hardly ever recognized a driver so linked to Ferrari. Maybe it’s the reminiscence of that day at Interlagos. Maybe it’s as a result of he wished to return to Maranello with all his would possibly, known as again by the identical individuals who had despatched him away. Possibly as a result of when you’re true inside, you perceive the variations, and it’s by no means only a matter of cash.”
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“And Kimi is a real particular person […] he gave so much to Ferrari, together with (as you possibly can see) the final three World Championship titles, between 2007 and 2008. I’ve by no means managed to grasp how he received at Spa in 2009 with a wheelbarrow painted in crimson” – the Italian journalist concluded.
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