JPM not making his own life easy



This is precious - I don't doubt some is out of context, but still..

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/50711

[Kimi's pace towards the end]

"It was Kimi being heroic on the last lap and putting the fastest lap in,
because it was half a second quicker than any other lap he did in the race.
So he was either slow or thinking about something else other than driving
except on the last lap."

[On changing Kimi's nose]

"I was kind of shocked the team did that," he said. "When you are doing
stacked pitstops and you can put both cars on the podium, they decide to
change Kimi's nose.

"Yes, he did damage the endplate but the end result was that I ended up
going up over a kerb, the car ended up shutting itself off and that cost us
points. If they wouldn't have done that (changed Raikkonen's nose) then I
wouldn't have been behind Ralf (Schumacher) at any point.

"Ron said that Kimi had the pace to win the race and it turns out that he
didn't. So we ended up with him finishing second and me not finishing so
for the constructors' (championship) that cost us at least six points."

--
CatharticF1

"What you thought was Freedom is just Greed."
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