RE: Kimi Videos: Interviews - 13

Zitat von theFworld im Beitrag #35

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Ich habs mal hier gepostet das Video, hoffe es passt in diese Kategorie :)



Ich hab es ab Min 30 gesehen, weil sie dort Mark Slade per Telefon dazuschalten, ka wie viel sie davor über Kimi oder Lotus reden, aber danach wirds lustig :)!

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Ich hab hier die Textversion mit dem Interview von Mark, manche Stellen kann man etwas schlecht verstehen finde ich.

About the race
"Things have been in the up this year and we’ve been sniffing around trying to get to the front of the grid this year... front of the queue i think, finally it all worked out for us... and... and it happened. Its just a massive relief for everybody in the team because we are not one of the big guys, we are just a smaller team and last year didnt work for us. So, just for everybody its a massive sense of excitement and relief in just what the future can hold for us with Kimi onboard."


Question about q3 lap
" It was a fantastic lap, but what really made the lap was sector 3, just a couple of corners, the last corner where he. .. FOUND... a tenth that he hadnt found previously and it was interestin coz comparing to Romains lap they were virtually identical until that 3rd sector where Kimi took 1/2 a second out of him in just a matter of sort of 5 corners &( somebody/something ) surprised by that when he looked at the data afterwards ... Its just classic kimi, where he has something in reserve and he knows when to use it, when to use it to the maximum. .. sometimes it goes a lil bit wrong... I think suzuka, where we saw that at spoon where he took a little bit of risk and it didnt work out for him, but this time it all worked for him and absolutely absolutely sublime lap really"


About the sort of vibe he was giving out for the race
"uhm yeah, to be honest he was giving it a bit earlier than that. in india in the race, he come back to us, in the office after the race and said, the car just felt glued to the road and he was significantly quicker than felipe. He had some difficulties in practice in abu dhabi but after qualifying, i felt he knew he was on for something big. Sunday morning (?) in office. .. We arrive at normally 10:15, we sort of normally expect Kimi to turn up like, last minute possible. He sort of walked in 10 mins after we’d arrived ( ? )... ( i asked? ) is ther a meeting... ( ) ... Or something... He sort of looked up to me and said.. "No..." I just felt... uh... thats unusual, i think its all just part of his excitement to the prospect of getting some good result. He just ( didnt know what to do until the formation lap? ).he did the 3 laps and got out of the car and said... "Yeah" ..." traction feels good, really feels good " ... from that point onwards we knew that we could have a good race.. and obviously it came down to the start and the fortunes of cars that may end up in front of us. its just one of those days where it all worked beautifully for us, very good."


Question about radio
"Well, it wasnt any surprise for me coz I’ve experienced similar things like that in the past during his time at mclaren. So, u know its just he was applying total focus and concentration to the job in hand and lets face it he does have 10 years experience as a grandprix driver and a very succesful one at that , so i think it was just a bit annoying for him to have people talking to his ears but i mean he just wanted to apply that 100% concentration. Admittedly we had only talked to him when the safety car was out was because we were aware of not wanting to disturb him any other time, so we just felt that we needed to make the point at 2nd safety car restart. We were extremely concerned...we had some not so great safety car restarts and the prospect of fernando and sebastian right behind us... Clearly it was pretty tense moments so we just wanted to make sure that he was absolutely not missing out on that... Having said that... We should have had more faith in him, like he said... He knew exactly what he was doing."


Kimi came and apologised?
"He didnt say exactly like that ... But. i ve worked with him for a long time and i knew there was nothing personal in it and Simon is perfectly fine with it he knows the score as well.
It will happen again, there will be a time when we have to say something to him and there is a good chance that he will be pretty annoyed .
With Kimi it is sometimes funny that... you tell him something and he will act like you didnt need to tell him, but then you will see that he actually did something... He’ll never acknowledge that you are right, but sometimes it happens. "


About Steering
"Its more to do with response of the steering, some drivers seem remarkably unaffected with the weights and response of the steering, Kimi is exactly at the opposite end of the spectrum...we had troubles at mclaren getting things absolutely spot on for him... But we did... Then he has come her and its fair to say that as far as he is concerned the steering was upto scratch... We ve made some progress and thatwas made pretty early in the season and its fair to say that we havent got it as good as he would like it to be ... obviously we are hoping to make progress on that next season. he describes it as just about adequate at the moment. We are a small team and the question is do you want the car to go quicker with a aero component or put resources on getting the steering right. We are not like ferrari or mclaren where we can put resources on both at the same time and get it right, its just a function of where we are at the moment. Its good enough to win races and we will take that, we will work on it for next season"