Maybe if there were more people like him on the grid, motor racing wouldn't have turned to be a media circus, with silly interviews all the time. After all, the action is on the track, and not in some rehearsed PR. I know that people like Perez who joined a top team spend their winter being coached about interviews. Villeneuve or Raikkonen obviously don't want to play the game and end up turning the tables on journalists. In the old days, I remember Denny Hulme being quite obstructive with the press and sometime keeping silence for a moment after a question, and just turning and walking away from the journos. I loved watching the look on their faces.
Always been a fan of Kimi. The **** he says are always funny as **** even and he doesn't even mean to be funny as ****, he just is. I remember last year in Monaco, some idiot next to me asked him as he was walking back to the Lotus box, whether he's racing to win or just a participant waiting for his paycheck... Kimi stopped and then just stared him down, and said, "Ask me that again & I will punch you." I lol'd.
'Interviewer: The most exciting moment during the race weekend? Kimi: I think so its the race start, always. Interviewer: The most boring? Kimi: Now.' LOL Havent seen this one before.
On Ron Dennis: Hes strange now and then. He always wants to know everything. He doesnt interest me. LOL
The latest by Kimi from Sepang: "I smile more in my entire career than those who stood on the podium at Sepang."
At japan last year: [Reporter] Kimi, what happened? [Kimi] I spun [R] What about the others that got slowed down by your yellow flag? [KR] I don't care about the others. lol EPIC!!!
I love that guy. I swear I pissed myself reading this. If someone would make a video montage of all those comments, so I could hear it in Kimi's awesome emotial voice, that would put me over the edge!!
At the moment, there is a Renault advert running here on British TV. Could you believe Kimi Raikkonen lending himself to shoot adverts? He drives the Renault Megane (I think), and stops to get out and admire the sea. A fisherman nearby asks him "On holidays?", "No" replies Kimi. "On business?" continues the man. "No" answers Kimi. "But what are you doing there then?" "I don't know" says a laconic Kimi.
I don't understand how this type of behaviour is 'so awesome'. Kimi is known for not caring too much, but these days it has become some sort of signature attitude for him, even to the level it is a base for all sorts of marketing actions like t shirts and TV-commercials. He is just as bad as all those other media people out there.
I think that's the misconception a lot of folks have about him. He does care. He just doesn't care about having to tell you he cares. Having witnessed the reaction he had when that one bozo asked him if he's just a participant tells me he cares about winning and isn't just about the paycheck.
It's out of the norm, that's why it's cool. A talented driver who doesn't play to the media or prostitute himself to sponsors, well, that's refreshing, no?
I loved the video of the team greeting. That was awesome. So was the "Not much really" comment after winning last year. I laughed so hard my daughter thought I was having a stroke.
I also don't think he likes stupid and inane questions with self evident answers because some journalist needs to fill air time or a quote to get his piece printed.
He's on the opposite end of stupid. I'm of the opinion that he says much of what he says in order to get a rise out of uptight people.
