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[vaptin]

Oh the irony of it all...

rubens helping out a team mate to become strong when under shooey he was left out and ate dust?

[7UpJordan]

Oh the irony of it all...

rubens helping out a team mate to become strong when under shooey he was left out and ate dust?

I think he's referring to when Kimi was last at McLaren and a lot of McLaren fans slagged him off a lot, but now he's possibly returning they see it as some sort of godsend.

[Gaz]

And F1 is a big step up from Formula 1

It's only 6 letters difference.

The Hulk is a good driver, i'm sure he'll be fine. It's immensely rare for a GP2/F3000 winner to be a bad driver, wouldn't you agree??

I dunno, i'll leave judgement until hes in that Williams

[vaptin]

when do you reckon that will happen?

[Bladesman]

Wouldnt mind seeing Kimi come back to McLaren although Id rather Mika come back.

[Tony_sa]

when do you reckon that will happen?

hamilton not keen to have kimi at mclaren. he knows kimi will show him up and if engine situation is gonna remain like it is at the moment he will end up having to race with kimi. I am so going to like the showdown this time. The iceman wont take any drama from the little queen.

[RA Dunk]

I am so going to like the showdown this time. The iceman wont take any drama from the little queen.

Thats cause he will be so far behind Lewis he will be chocking on his dust..........

That was a joke BTW

TBH i dont rate Kimi as highly as i do Alonso and we all know what happened there dont we

[Tony_sa]

I am so going to like the showdown this time. The iceman wont take any drama from the little queen.

Thats cause he will be so far behind Lewis he will be chocking on his dust..........

That was a joke BTW

TBH i dont rate Kimi as highly as i do Alonso and we all know what happened there dont we

ya me too. kimi can be fast when he wants to be. hammie just have to hope he has a hangover else there going to trouble on the track between those two.

[bud]

Kimi and Lewis will be fine as it was Fernando who spat the dummy last time. Kimi wont give a toss if Ham is faster or not.

[Gilles 27]

Kimi won't expect number 1 status, he'll be aware that it is Hamilton's team. Alonso was not aware in 2007 that McLaren was already Hamilton's team and so felt aggrieved. If Kimi can be arsed, he should be faster than Lewis but who knows with him. Lewis will beat him over a whole season i reckon, Kimi is not the sort to pull a team round him like Lewis, Alonso or Even Massa, he'll have to beat Lewis on pace alone.

[Tony_sa]

Kimi and Lewis will be fine as it was Fernando who spat the dummy last time. Kimi wont give a toss if Ham is faster or not.

2006 or 2007 kimi. ??

the 2009 one mostly sucks. looked like he woke a few weeks ago n now went back to sleep.

well gillis27 - we will have some rivalry - that i can promise. the iceman will deliver or maybe just throw a spanner in the works

[vaptin]

I suppose kimi just isn't the type who will battle it out in the midfield, give him a sniff at a podium and he'll charge right at it.

But kimi really is a top class driver though,

[Tony_sa]

I suppose kimi just isn't the type who will battle it out in the midfield, give him a sniff at a podium and he'll charge right at it.

But kimi really is a top class driver though,

I second that !! he knows he leaving - maybe just cause ferrari the lose third in the constructors. he already complaining the car slow.

[vaptin]

The car is slow, kimi has been dragging it around single handed since hungary and beating drivers in faster cars so ferrari can keep third place. If he won't be there next season he won't give a damn about ferrari next season and will just want a race winning car in 09 to strut his stuff

[McLaren Fan]

From F1 Live:

McLaren are refusing to directly confirm that Kimi Raikkonen is set to return next year, but team members are dropping lots of hints.

With it all but certain that Fernando Alonso is moving to Ferrari next year, it is believed that Raikkonen's lawyers are in the final stages of negotiating a multi-million Euro exit from his contract so that he can become Lewis Hamilton's next team-mate.

Team chiefs Martin Whitmarsh and Norbert Haug did not specifically mention the possibility in Singapore, but it was clear what they were talking about. "McLaren has never had the philosophy of specifying a number one," Whitmarsh said. "We want to have the best available drivers in our cars."

However, in 2007 when Hamilton was pitted alongside Fernando Alonso, the team's policy of employing strong drivers - with absolute equality - resulted in tension.

It is also a concern that, as Hamilton and Alonso fought two years ago, they both narrowly lost the world championship - ironically to Raikkonen. "Managing drivers is what it is all about and we are capable of doing that," said Haug.

Source: GMM
© CAPSIS International

McLaren being good at driver management? Still, regardless of the risks, I'd rather see the two best drivers in the team, instead of copping out and going for the safe option. It's more moral and spices things up. If, or should that be when, Raikkonen shows up, I don't expect there will be quite the same problems as in 2007. Raikkonen is a much more cool character and surely knows the score with Hamilton.