Comments on: Kimi Raikkonen voted top driver of 2009

By: Anon

Anon — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 23:48:08 +0000

Kimi brings nothing but those who are actually missing from an asylum, trust them to ruin online enjoyment of every other motor sport fan.

By: Pedel to the Vettel

Pedel to the Vettel — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 22:15:14 +0000

Well Lewis lost twice to get that, it was probably because 2007 Calzaghe was Undefeted still, 2008 Chris Hoy the first British man to claim 3 gold medals in 100 years in 1 sport. How can Lewis match that while having the best car 2 years running and winning 1 world title. Yer Jenson will win this year not because of his skin colour but it will be because jenson won it at the right time.

1:No major sporting event.
2:And Brawn GP being a phoenix from the ashes.

The public love that and BBC did a better job then ITV this year.

By: Pedel to the Vettel

Pedel to the Vettel — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 22:03:48 +0000

i second that opinion

By: Maciek

Maciek — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 12:59:58 +0000

I don’t live in the UK, so I don’t know about latent racism there, but it might be more of a case of race drivers not being regarded by quite a few people as practising a sport, as such. When Jacques Villeneuve was awarded the same kind of Canadian distinction after his championship year, there was A LOT of criticism about honouring a driver, rather than an athlete, as many perceived it.

By: dean

dean — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 12:25:50 +0000

Whats the betting that BUTTON will win the BBC sports personality of the year this december 2009.
The person i feel sorry for is the superior driver Lewis hamilton, who has twice finished runner up in the BBC sports perosnality of the year, despite being the youngest ever formula1 champion.If Button wins the BBC award no one can ever tell me that the public are not a bit racist, because there is no real difference between Button’s championship win and Hamilton’s winning his.Indeed i think its far more difficult to be regarded as the youngest ever winning.
By the way last year Lewis lost out to a cyclist.Be honest , when have the British public really given a toss about cycling.If you stopped the average person in the street they could not tell you who the current female world cycling champion is over 1000 metres.

If Button wins its 100% true he deserves it, but no more than Hamilton does because he has twice not won it.Things must be called what they are -racism on the part of the general public because im sure if HAMILTON was white he would have easily won the award last year
.Remember Nigel Mansell won the BBC sports personality of the year despite finishing only second in that championship year.
I know many would disagree about what i say, but you must always deal with the facts in your life, no matter how hard they are to except.If my best friend is a racist, i will not defend him and say he is not a racist just because he happens to be my best friend.
TRUTH IS TRUTH

By: aja

aja — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 05:23:23 +0000

Kimi is a Champ in my books, look for the ice mans comeback to F1 in 2011 with his currant employer. i missed the poll but i would have voted for Mr. Kimi any way.

By: Stephen Northcott

Stephen Northcott — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 04:05:14 +0000

Absolutely. The car was an absolute Dog from race one in 2009.
It was very clear to see. Something I was saying throughout the season, and emphasized to people as soon as I saw Fisi having the same problems as Luca.

Credit to both Massa and Kimi for their ability to drive it competitively at all. It’s very very revealing to read that article. Thanks for the link.

I honestly think the only other driver in F1 who could have got as much out of the Ferrari as Kimi and Massa is probably Alonso, which will make next year all the more interesting when Ferrari produce their third dud F1 car in a row…

By: Redmist

Redmist — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 03:54:46 +0000

http://www.pitpass.com/fes_php/pitpass_news_item.php?fes_art_id=39644

Well, it seems like Kimi was driving a lot better then many people thought.

By: Net Sticks

Net Sticks — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 13:48:31 +0000

This has to be a joke or a farwell gift, right ?!…. lol

By: Uditvanu Das

Uditvanu Das — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 12:01:38 +0000

maybe it should, that’d be so much fun…atleast he’s not a driver with a stick up his behind eh…

By: Maciek

Maciek — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 08:47:35 +0000

Well here’s some interesting tidbits about the impression Kimi left at Ferrari, though I’m sure I’ll lots about how none of that is his fault…
http://www.autoevolution.com/news/alonso-already-more-popular-at-ferrari-than-raikkonen-14030.html

By: yeye

yeye — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:21:24 +0000

Let’s just get this clear: Not everyone who has written posts on here supporting Kimi are fanboys. And haven’t you realised that not everybody has the same opinion as you. So just get over it.

By: VXR

VXR — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:07:39 +0000

Who seem to have very good communication with one another.

Or maybe there’s another way to vote so many times by not so many people? hmmm, I wonder..

By: Shagrathian

Shagrathian — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:02:55 +0000

Bullocks! As it seems there are some fan boys and fan girls among us.

By: Melanie

Melanie — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:01:00 +0000

I do think it’s incredibly lame for the fanboys to flood the local vote we were having here.
No one care who wins, but we are a group of people wo chat together and we like to know who “we as a group” think is best. Not some bunch of lameass finns coming in to skew the vote in a last minute event. Kimi got something like 1200 votes in the last few days and only 200 before.
It’s like debating with your family which color would look good in the livingroom and in come 1200 people who all love blue and they start screaming blue is the best color. It’s annoying behavior.

So if someone voted for Kimi they are lame? I think I have given a very good reason or account of myself in fine detail for why I have voted for Kimi. And that is properly more important, as long as someone can give a good account of themselves for voting the way they did.
The fact of the matter is that no one this year really had a full perfect season, all the drivers were only really good in one half of the season, some in the second half and some in the beginning of the year. Kimi made much less mistakes then many of the others and he also had his fair share of bad luck. Kimi really got the most out of the car he was driving. Ferrari stopped development very early on but Kimi kept up the performances, if it wasn’t for Kimi’s performances, Ferrari wouldn’t even have had a chance at 3rd in the championship until the end. I cant see why some people think it is so very unreasonable to vote for Kimi. On the Autosport forum for example Kimi was voted the second best driver of the year. (So no change of people from other places voting).

It is also not difficult to see why Kimi is so interested in rallying, he has properly grown-up with rallying. Rallying has always been huge in Finland, in fact it is properly more popular then F1. So from Kimi’s frame of reference he properly sees F1 and WRC as the same only a different discipline of racing. It will be quite difficult for Kimi in WRC with almost no experine, but he entered F1 in much the same way. Everyone in WRC is also really excited about having Kimi, and there is less media focus will suit him just fine. I wouldn’t be surprised if he enjoy rallying so much that he never wants to return to F1.

By: VXR

VXR — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:53:16 +0000

Maybe the next poll should be: “Best Ice Cream Eating F1 Driver of 2009″ ?

By: Anonymizer

Anonymizer — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:57:12 +0000

Check this out, relating to this poll.http://runoffarea.co.uk/2009/12/01/fia-acknowledge-poll-crown-raikkonen/

By: VXR

VXR — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 13:56:09 +0000

Autosport are reporting that Kimi’s WRC deal is to be announced shortly.

By: Maciek

Maciek — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 13:16:46 +0000

It’s like debating with your family which color would look good in the livingroom and in come 1200 people who all love blue and they start screaming blue is the best color

Gotta say, that’s probably the best take yet on this whole thing.

By: Patrickl

Patrickl — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:23:15 +0000

Well it’s not that “clearly”.

Raikkonen was doing a lot better than Massa at the start of 2008. I think before he got rammed by Hamilton in Canada, Raikkonen was even leading the WDC. He would have won that race too and would even been further ahead of Massa.

Then Raikkonen struggled a while with the car in qualifying. After that (starting at Spa) he was faster than Massa again by miles. He had to make up for lost time and took too much risks (crashing out a lot)

So at best you could say Massa was “clearly” better than Raikkonen in 5 or 6 races in 2008.

The first half of this season, Massa wasn’t better than Raikkonen at all. It’s simply impossible to make a comparison. Raikkonen’s car broke down more often than not. The strategies failed. Both drivers had qualifying problems.

There is just no way you can call it either way.

Kimi has been doing a reasonable job at Ferrari. Just not good enough to grant his bizarre paycheck. So he had to go. They went to look for a new “hero”.

I’m a big fan of Kimi. He might not be the best driveroverall, but he’s one of the few who actually provides entertaintment ON TRACK. He overtakes a lot and he is always pushing (indeed sometimes too much for his own good).

I do think it’s incredibly lame for the fanboys to flood the local vote we were having here.

No one care who wins, but we are a group of people wo chat together and we like to know who “we as a group” think is best. Not some bunch of lameass finns coming in to skew the vote in a last minute event. Kimi got something like 1200 votes in the last few days and only 200 before.

It’s like debating with your family which color would look good in the livingroom and in come 1200 people who all love blue and they start screaming blue is the best color. It’s annoying behavior.