[quote="dogeatsdog"]Funny article on Kimi from finnish sports reporter 'Anette' something.. I hear she was driving carting with Kimi when they were 13 or 14 and thats why Kimi always gives her the interviews (might help that she is really hot too!).
Anyways.. the original (in finnish) is here
http://blogit.mtv3.fi/racegirl/2011/12/01/kiitti-kimi/and here is the translation:
Thanks, Kimi!
MTV3 was the first media which published the news about Kimi Räikkönen transition from Formula One to the World Rally Championship. It was at the end of the year 2009.
This started the spaculations about his success in rallying - some thought he would even win races and others were more realistic and wished that he could finnish off races in the top ten.
We all remember Kim's first 2010 WRC rally in Sweden? Kimi was a Citroen Junior Team driver at the time. For the first time we could all witness the Iceman digging out the car from the snow. The car slipped from the road and for 25 minutes Raikkonen was shoveling snow, with a big woolhat over his ears, dripping sweat, with the world's smallest plastic snow shovel. The Iceman ended the race on Sunday at rank 30 and the difference
to the top was around 37 minutes.
That same year, Kimi drove a the best result of his World Rally Championship career.
In the Turkish Grand Prix Raikkonen was fifth and there was a lot of praise for him after the event. After the rally the Iceman jumped into his private jet and flew to Switzerland while we others stayed stuck in Turkey due to the volcanic eruption in Iceland.
Homecoming took us another 67 hours, for others even longer. Everyone should have their own private jet.
What Kimi certainly appreciated in rallying, was the privacy that he got there.
Journalists / media did not run after him, but he was left in peace. If Kimi was not in the mood to talk, he was left alone with his team. Many foreign reporters came to us to ask what Kimi had said after the interview. Sometimes when the Iceman melted and flashed us
nice smile, the foreigner reportes thought he had said something really funny. Usually it was probably only Kimi laughing at the reporters question.
The fans never left Kimi even though he had changed to the new world of rally-racing. In front of the pit there were always fans shouting kimis name and carrying boards with Kimis name. For example the japanese fans were surprisingly good at pronouncing Kimis full name.
In Kimis first WRC year he had many outings off the road. I don't remember which GP it was but when the forest was calling Kimi again and he had landed his vehicle kimi let out the finnish saying "Voi vittujen kevät!" (Note: meaning pretty much "f***ing s***!"). North One Sports owns the rally promotional rights, and they both film and produce the WRC broadcasts. They asked us to look at Kimis onboard-camera material and asked us to translate what Kimi had said after the car had stopped after doing a somersault. The recap of the conversation:
(original in english as in Anettes blog - not translated)
Anette: Öö it´s kinda hard to translate this…
North One Sport reporter: Well try, we need to know what he says.
Anette: OK, straight translate would be: Spring time of the pussies
North One Sport reporter: Really? What the hell does it mean??? U
finns are weird, we will not use that onboard piece.
Another unfortunate outing was in spain in 2010 which became his shortest ever ralley. He flew off the road on the test special stage. The cars roll bar bend a little and the game was finished. This year after the Rally Catalonia he didn't want to give anyone interviews. We finnish reporters were wondering what this was about? After the rally I asked Kimi why he didn't want to give any interviews? Kimi told me he just had a bad day. He didn't want to talk to us because he would have said something stupid. Yes, even world champions have bad days. This was honesty from Kimis side that I appriciate.
All in all it was great to see Kimi in Rally. I sent him congratulations in a textmessage on tuesday after his renault-contract was published. Usually he doesn't answer my messages but now he answered "Thanks".
So the Iceman is exited about his comeback to to F1! See you next year in Formula One![/quote]
That would be "Anette Latva-Piikkilä" Finnish WRC reporter. (but in my opinion Jenni is hotter)
time!
