F1: Kimi's quirky quotes

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Kimi Raikkonen

Is Kimi lazy?Q: Kimi, how is the cooperation in the team. Do you get along with everyone?KR: Yeah it’s fine. But they have a much harder time with me than I with anyone else.Q: What do you mean?KR: I am a bit lazy sometimes.

Alonso doesn´t matter Räikkönen isn’t affected by Alonso’s mental games. “I couldn’t care less what that man thinks!”

Kimi disagree with Lewis HamiltonLewis Hamilton said that winning his first race felt better than having sex. Kimi´s reply to that was: “Maybe he never had sex.”

What Kimi makes flip outQ: Kimi, have you ever got angry about anything, and jumped up and down and shouted?KR: Yeah, many times but of course you’re not happy if you retire or something but I guess it mostly happens more in normal life than in racing.Q: Can you give us examples?KR: No, not really.Q: What are the kind of things that make you angry in normal life, as you say?KR: If you keep asking questions like those.

A very precise statementKimi tells about the track conditions at the new Formula 1 circuit in Singapore:” It is narrow in some places, wide at the other – it depends on where you are.”

Evening without JenniKimi Räikkönen on the question whether he likes it when his wife accompanied him to the races:” Yes, without her the evening in the hotel room is so boring.”

Kimi is worried about overlappingQ: What advice would you give to the rookies Nico Rosberg and Scott Speed?KR: I hope that they are good in making room!

Dancing is not his thingKimi on finish Independence-Day Party at the President’s castle: “I think I will skip the dancing part. Maybe someone else dances with Jenni if she wants.”

Kimi´s stay in CanadaQ: Kimi, how you spent the days here in Canada before the GP in Montreal?KR: I arrived here on Tuesday. So I was here yesterday.

Italian?? Nothing for KimiAn Italian interviewer tries to get Kimi to say something in Italian.KR: You can talk Italian if you want to.

What a logical ritualQ: Do you have any special rituals when the helmet is concerned like many other drivers have?KR: I wipe it, so that I can see better.

Hoisted with their own petardQ: Gossip Media asks how have you prepared for the Season?KR: I usually get to read from your magazines what I have done.

Schumi wants to be well represented? Kimi thinks yes!I’m not interested in what people think about me. I’m not Michael Schumacher.

Without wordsQ: What makes TAG Heuer (Kimi´s main-sponsor) so special?KR: It’s ok.

About whom he is talking here? Kimi answered a question about his lack of emotion after winning a grand prix.KR: It’s not my style. Yeah, winning feels good, but I’m not the type of guy who jumps up and down and rubs it in everyone’s face.

Things you can do in FinlandWell, in summer there’s fishing and shagging. And in winter the fishing is bad.

Kimi´s extraordinary hobbyQ: Kimi, do you have any hobbies?KR: I collect walnuts.

The classicQ: Kimi Räikkönen doesn’t seem interested in the proceedings going on up there. Kimi, you missed the presentation by Pele.KR: Yeah.Q: Will you get over it?KR: Yeah. I was having a shit.

Describe yourself

Interviewer: Describe yourself. What are you made of ?

KR: Blood, flesh and bone like everybody else!

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