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The final race of the F1 season was this weekend just gone in Brazil, and it was an eventful one alright. Rain, crashes, spins, wins, and, err, Kimi Raikkonen getting lost right in the middle of the race. Yep, lost on a closed track. Impressive stuff.
Having gone wide on a corner, which considering it was chucking it down and slippery as hell wasn’t a surprise, he decided to take a shortcut back onto the track. Unfortunately, the route he took was a dead end, so he had to spin the car, and head back out the way he came, tail between his legs. Hilarious. [YouTube via Jalopnik]
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*Insert Apple Maps Joke*
Not actually lost – he’d used this part of the track before, still amusing nonetheless – in his own words: -
“I went off at the last corner on lap fifty-two as I couldn’t see well with my visor being dirty and fogged up. Where I went off you can get back on the track by going through the support race pit lane, but you have to go through a gate. I know this as I did the same thing in 2001 and the gate was open that year. Somebody closed it this time. Next year I’ll make sure it’s open again!”
http://bertholdbouman.wordpress.com/2012/11/26/brazilian-gp-kimi-raikkonen-i-wasnt-lost-i-knew-where-i-was-going/
I wonder if I can put a bet on at the local bookies that Kimi will be going off road at that same corner next year?
Not sure about that – but if you put a bar down there with some vodka shots for him, reckon they’d be a good chance
The man’s a legend – shame there’s not more like him.
Yeah, a real shame there aren’t more boorish arseholes like Kimi.
He didn’t really get lost. The route he went down is usually open for rally cars (which he spend the previous 2-3 years driving).
But as the commentator said – he if turned up to the pre-race walkaround on the Thursday, he would have known it was closed.
Bah!
Beaten.
Except he never drove a rally car at Interlagos. So it’s neither relevant nor an excuse.
Raikkonen always know what he’s doing, this was his post race quote:
“I went off at the last corner on lap fifty-two as I couldn’t see well with my visor being dirty and fogged up,” said Raikkonen.
“Where I went off you can get back on the track by going through the support race pit lane, but you have to go through a gate.
“I know this as I did the same thing in 2001 and the gate was open that year. Somebody closed it this time.
“Next year I’ll make sure it’s open again.”
bah, too late by the time I found the quote, classic Raikkonen though
I would love to know if there was some more classic Kimi radio there
“Errr, Kimi, you know you the support lane is..”
“Yes yes yes, I know where I’m going, leave me alone”
*spins car round*
“Sorry lads”
Except Kimi would never say sorry of course.
And he still came third in the Championship