Am I the only one but Kimi's "incident" on corner #1 from the back row seemed like he deliberately drove into the other car. He couldn't leave the circuit fast enough. Will be interesting to see developments at the two final races. He isn't helping Lotus stay ahead of Ferrari in the constructors championship or is he already under Ferrari team orders?? GV27TIFOSI
makes one wonder how many corners Kimi will clear before he crashes in the last two races. stay tuned.
On the conspiracy front, anyone want to speculate that Lotus intentionally gave Kimi an out of spec floor to "take him down a notch" ... ... and to keep him behind Grosjean? Nah. That'd be as silly as Ferrari intentionally breaking the gearbox seal on Massa's car to put Alonso up a spot.
I don't think Kimi would have crashed deliberately - I think when he drives he always aims to finish well if not win outright. He has said in the past that if he couldn't drive that way then he wouldn't get in the car at all. As for Lotus giving Kimi an out-of-spec or weak component... well, Grosjean had the same failure earlier in the season so I'm not sure on that one. I do think Lotus are trying to favour Grosjean because Kimi is leaving - if Grosjean finishes the season stronger than Kimi then they can argue next year (to Sponsors) that they aren't losing very much with Kimi's departure. All the best, Andrew.
I seriously doubt Grosjean could finish with more points than Kimi EVEN if he did not participate the rest of the season
He's an F1 driver and one of the best of them at that... an above average racing driver couldn't do that intentionally, but one of the hyper-elite such as Raikkonen probably could. Having said that, I don't believe he would ever do something like that intentionally, he's too pure a racer. All the best, Andrew.
I don't know if it was intentional or not, but they knew what was going to happen if his car would be inspected after quali: Mika Salo: "In Abu Dhabi the background of Räikkönen's disqualification was that it was the second time that the same defect was in the floor. The judges had already told Lotus to change that part in their car, but the team didn't do it. Now Kimi had to take the blame for Lotus-team screwing it up. The team just hoped that it wouldn't happen again, but it did."
I don't see how it could have been deliberate. Besides, you could have that exact same impact mulitple times and the damage would vary each time, or cause no damage at all.
I was rather wondering if it was intentional or not? Did they take a gamble or was it a pure mistake?
I am just thinking that maybe Lotus does not have the funds to update Kimi's car to pass the "flex" test
One way to find out is to ask the CIA to spy on the phone data they have been collecting from KIMI's phones. If they have Andrea Merkels conversations, then they must have KIMI's too!
Oh well, then they definitely don't have money to pay Kimi's salary either. The latest tells that Kimi has agreed to race the last two races provided he gets the short wheel base for both races. Common sense says that if that happens, then they also have to replace the part which got Kimi disqualified in Abu Dhabi. Oh well, two more races and then it's over once and for all
Bingo. IF Kimi was running and complained that the car wouldn't handle so he decided to park it, then I could see it. But it's impossible for him to bend the front of the car the way he did intentionally. The circumstances are too variable not to mention dangerous.
