22-10-2008, 05:02 PM
<span style="color:#FF0000">Raikkonen ready to help Massa again
Kimi Raikkonen says he is prepared to play the team game again if needed in the season-finale in Brazil to help Ferrari win both world titles. The out-going world champion was cast into a support role for team-mate Felipe Massa in China last weekend, giving away his second place to the Brazilian to allow him to gain two extra points in his title fight with Lewis Hamilton. Raikkonen insists he would be happy to cede his position in similar fashion if Massa needed his help again at Interlagos next week.
I gained the best possible result in China, considering that we couldn't fight for the win," he said.
Once you don't fight for the title anymore for me it doesn't make a difference if I come in second or third, as long as the points for Ferrari remain the same. "
The team is fighting in both championships: I'd be glad if I could do something for Felipe, that he can win the title and Ferrari will be again victorious in the constructors' championships in the last race of the season.
While the Finns disappointing title defence officially ended the week before in Japan, he says he has been encouraged by his upturn to form in the Far East where he qualified on the front row and finished on the podium in both races.
For once I came back home from a race with a positive feeling, he said.
The best part of the two races at China and Japan is that I was competitive in the qualifying again.
The car behaves the way I like it and that's why I managed to start from the front row in Fuji and in Shanghai.
He added that he hopes Ferrari is able to repeat the 1-2 result that clinched his maiden title triumph in Brazil last year.
Now we're heading to Brazil, where I had the best weekend of my life last year: I'll never forget this moment, he said. "Going back will charge me even more I guess.
We'll try to repeat our 1-2 win from last year and then we'll calculate the outcome of the standings and we'll see where we are in the two championships.
I'll have the same approach as in the last two races.
The qualifying will be fundamental and it would be nice to start from the front row once more: if this should happen, let's hope that the situation after the first corner will be different.
Fonte: ITV
E esta ah? :noworry:
Kimi Raikkonen says he is prepared to play the team game again if needed in the season-finale in Brazil to help Ferrari win both world titles. The out-going world champion was cast into a support role for team-mate Felipe Massa in China last weekend, giving away his second place to the Brazilian to allow him to gain two extra points in his title fight with Lewis Hamilton. Raikkonen insists he would be happy to cede his position in similar fashion if Massa needed his help again at Interlagos next week.
I gained the best possible result in China, considering that we couldn't fight for the win," he said.
Once you don't fight for the title anymore for me it doesn't make a difference if I come in second or third, as long as the points for Ferrari remain the same. "
The team is fighting in both championships: I'd be glad if I could do something for Felipe, that he can win the title and Ferrari will be again victorious in the constructors' championships in the last race of the season.
While the Finns disappointing title defence officially ended the week before in Japan, he says he has been encouraged by his upturn to form in the Far East where he qualified on the front row and finished on the podium in both races.
For once I came back home from a race with a positive feeling, he said.
The best part of the two races at China and Japan is that I was competitive in the qualifying again.
The car behaves the way I like it and that's why I managed to start from the front row in Fuji and in Shanghai.
He added that he hopes Ferrari is able to repeat the 1-2 result that clinched his maiden title triumph in Brazil last year.
Now we're heading to Brazil, where I had the best weekend of my life last year: I'll never forget this moment, he said. "Going back will charge me even more I guess.
We'll try to repeat our 1-2 win from last year and then we'll calculate the outcome of the standings and we'll see where we are in the two championships.
I'll have the same approach as in the last two races.
The qualifying will be fundamental and it would be nice to start from the front row once more: if this should happen, let's hope that the situation after the first corner will be different.
Fonte: ITV
E esta ah? :noworry: