For instance, when Hamilton lied at the beginning of 2009 season, you barely mocked Hamilton at all while you thought the biggest issue was slightly unclear rules.

Actually I wrote one article for each perspective – one on how Hamilton had made a mistake, and one how the rules were a mess:

http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2009/04/03/two-sides-to-the-hamilton-trulli-controversy-hamilton-and-mclaren-apologise/

http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2009/04/03/two-sides-to-the-hamilton-trulli-controversy-another-entirely-avoidable-crisis/

However you’ve kept lot of noise about Raikkonen going wide in Spa

I don’t think I wrote an article about that one, but it’s clearly wrong to suggest he didn’t gain an advantage when he passed three or four people by going off the track.

LH is no contest to Kimi by a long way !

LH just doesnt have any balls and struggled to get the WDC from so far ahead ,,, BAsically if Timo Glock hadnt helped him out it would be kaput for him that year ,,,

I have a sneaking feeling that even JB will prove a match for the bigmouth LH.. Exciting!!

We love Kimi just because of his aloof and mind yr own business attitude…

He is not running for political office so he is under no obligation to be politically correct or do interview..

This PR stuff is exactly what is bloody wrong with F1.

If you love PR go and watch the commercials between the races…

And if he truly wants to race and win additional F1 championships then he needs to support HIS TEAM (regardless of where he drives) in the same manner he expects the team to support him. Do the sponsorship appearances, and whatever else is required.

Why are some of the most talented people in the world simultaneously the most childish? Baffling.

In the defence of this site, I don’t think this site has been negative towards Kimi Raikkonen in any way. In referance to Lewis Hamilton and the events in Melbourne this year, the F1 Fanatic site was very critical of Hamilton and the behaviour of McLaren. Importantly, and Keith touched on this topic recently, the events in March highlighted terrible flaws in FIA regulations and rules that have still gone unchanged. In essence, there is nothing to stop a simular case reoccuring in the future, and in that, this site criticised and rightly so.
I have been on this site for nearly two years, and every time we debate about Hamilton or McLaren we always witness a large amount of bloggers who clearly dislike Lewis. Alot of them, mark my words, are as English as pie and mash, so I don’t buy completely into your argument.
The certain negative aspect directed against Kimi is the disappointment among many at how his F1 career has appeared to come to a premature end. Raikkonen, as we all know, is one of this sport’s most naturally gifted drivers, and at the same time one of its most traditional thinkers. In other words, he is not corporate hungry or politically motivated. He does not care, or seem to, for drivers meetings or what new rules the FIA are introducing. As Niki Lauda said back in 2007, Raikkonen would have been quite at home in the turbo era or even earlier, when more emphasis was on racing as opposed to posing and supposed ’substance’ in interviews.

He will get paid 17m by Ferrari for not having a F1 drive plus whatever he earns from Rallying.

Most people on here if they were in that position would take the money and have the year off too. F1 is a job, especially for Kimi who’s not a fan of all the mandatory media, PR and marketing appearances.

Because I find that is why he is so frustrating. He is obviously fast but only on his terms when he wants it. WHERE IS THE HUNGER!!!!!

BUT

He was paid a huge amount of money and underdelivered on and off the track.

By the second race next year he will be forgotten.