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[darwin dali]

FM for the championship!

[Mikep99]

Will this cause an engine change for Kimi next race ?

[McLaren Fan]

From autosport.com:

Raikkonen likely to get new engine

By Edd Straw and Matt Beer Sunday, June 22nd 2008, 17:10 GMT

Kimi Raikkonen's damaged bodyworkFerrari team boss Stefano Domenicali says they will take advantage of the new-for-2008 rule that allows one penalty-free engine change so that Kimi Raikkonen can have a new V8 for Silverstone.

The champion was due to keep his French Grand Prix engine for the forthcoming British race, but Ferrari are now likely to make the change as a precaution following the exhaust problem that struck Raikkonen's car halfway through the Magny-Cours event.

Raikkonen was leading the race when part of his exhaust system worked loose, forcing him to slow his pace, although he still came home in second behind teammate Felipe Massa.

"I would say it is quite likely," said Domenicali when asked if Ferrari would change the engine. "For sure, after such a heavy race from the middle to the end, it's very likely that we have to change it so we need to play the joker that allows us to do it.

"As I said, we will do the analysis later on and tomorrow but there's no rush to do anything more than eventually change it when we go to Silverstone."

Domenicali said Ferrari made a conscious decision to leave the errant component flapping on the side of Raikkonen's car as they feared they would lose more time removing it during his pitstop. The exhaust part eventually flew off by itself.

"It was already flying away," he said. "There was the cable of the lamda and we decided not to cut that because we would maybe lose more seconds, and we had (Jarno) Trulli pushing behind so we took that into consideration. I have to say that in terms of strategy, in terms of teamwork everything was done correctly."

He said Ferrari had made as many adjustments as possible to conserve the engine, but they could never be completely confident that Raikkonen would reach the end of the race.

"We were trying to do what we could in order to protect the engine under those conditions and after all the things that were possible to do, just wait until the chequered flag," Domenicali said. "You could see that there were a lot of switches being moved around.

"For sure we were very worried, no doubt, it was a long race to finish, maybe lost a lot of years and a lot of hair but that's part of the game. In that condition you never know. It may stop any lap, it's too difficult, it's critical."

He was unable to confirm why the exhaust had begun to come apart, and admitted that it might prove difficult to investigate.

"Unfortunately it was not possible to understand it and also the other difficulty is that we had almost half of the race with all the breaking parts falling apart so it will also be difficult to have the pieces in our hands because they're somewhere around the track," Domenicali said.

"We will try to do the analysis after this weekend but at the moment there's no other info."

It looks likely.

[darwin dali]

FM for the championship!

[Hanwombat]

Would be nice for FM, atleast he shows more expression

[EwanM]

Would be nice for FM, atleast he shows more expression

Yeah, not like ROBOCOP.

[Hanwombat]

haha yes, did you see him get his second place trophy!

He should just be happy his car held it

[darwin dali]

Would be nice for FM, atleast he shows more expression

And he's cute and has a nice bum!

[McLaren Fan]

Would be nice for FM, atleast he shows more expression

As much as I don't believe that his skill is quite equal to, say, Raikkonen's, I admire Massa's work rate and passion. I'd rather see Massa win the title than Raikkonen, who only puts in the effort when it suits him and is thinking of bailing out of Formula One as soon as possible.

[Hanwombat]

Would be nice for FM, atleast he shows more expression

And he's cute and has a nice bum!

My opinion on Heikki

[EwanM]

Would be nice for FM, atleast he shows more expression

As much as I don't believe that his skill is quite equal to, say, Raikkonen's, I admire Massa's work rate and passion. I'd rather see Massa win the title than Raikkonen, who only puts in the effort when it suits him and is thinking of bailing out of Formula One as soon as possible.

Ditto he has that Latin passion. Works hard and he seems a decent guy.
Kimi seems decent to, but imagine spending a night out with him ladies? What would you talk about?

[darwin dali]

Would be nice for FM, atleast he shows more expression

And he's cute and has a nice bum!

My opinion on Heikki

Oh well, I go for the fiery Latin man

[Jensonb]

Lewis did not deserve that penalty in my opinion, he had clearly passed Vettel

It wasn't that he passed him by going off, it was that had he not gone off the pass would not have stuck and he'd have lost ground to him. In order to execute the pass he had to carry too much pace through the turn and into the next one so he was unable to round the turn. He took to the runoff to make it stick, avoiding braking hard to make it round the turn and losing the place again or smashing into another car by flinging it madly into the racing line and that is why he received a penalty.

[Hanwombat]

Would be nice for FM, atleast he shows more expression

And he's cute and has a nice bum!

My opinion on Heikki

Oh well, I go for the fiery Latin man

I seem to like finns

[Chaz Micheal Micheals] Its a curse [/CMM]

[7UpJordan]

Would be nice for FM, atleast he shows more expression

And he's cute and has a nice bum!

My opinion on Heikki

Oh well, I go for the fiery Latin man

What happened to "Mr Chubby" or "Schmexy Cubehead"?