Kimi Raikkonen celebrates his 28th birthday in Sao Paulo with the
decisive race for the drivers' championship in sight. "I have no special
plans to celebrate: It is better just to focus on the race weekend.
I just hope for one present for my birthday and I hope to receive it
after the race on Sunday afternoon!" said Kimi.
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Kimi Raikkonen, Scuderia Ferrari. Photo by xpb.cc.
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"After the race in
China I've been to Dubai for a couple of days. They have great weather
this time of the year. We go to Brazil in position three. So I'm not
really the favourite for the title. But as we saw at Shanghai two weeks
ago anything can happen. Whatever will happen, it's going to be a very
exciting race. We will give it all."
"It is nice to get on going after the
Chinese Grand Prix, where I had a very good feeling with the car and the
team. We couldn't do very much to prepare ourselves for Interlagos. We
have just done some simulations and analyzed the data. Let's hope that
everything will be all right for this demanding and bumpy track. I know
that the track has been redone, but we have to wait and see."
"I think that our competitors have done their job as we did. There's
lots of pressure on both sides. They have two drivers in the race for
the title and they also fight each other. Hopefully we can benefit
from that," said the Finnish driver. "At Interlagos we need a strong
package, especially the engine is very important for the long rising
main straight."
"I will start into this race the same way as into the
last two. My aim is to win and the rest is not up to me. It is a similar
situation as in 2003, when I lost the title to Michael. But at a certain
point during the Japanese GP it was a really close call. Hamilton has
seven points more than us: there's not much to calculate. We have to win
and that's it."
Kimi also underlined that he doesn't expect the tyres to be a problem:
"I've been reading stories that the supersoft tyres should be better
for our competitors. That might have been true early in the season.
But then things improved for us in terms of the setup. So we just have
to wait and see how it goes in Brazil."
"I have been close to winning at
Interlagos, but it has never quite paid off. I've finished three times
second, which is not that bad at all. Once I already had the trophy
back home for a couple of days. But I had to give it back later because
the FIA had checked the classification again. Two weeks ago I said
the same about Shanghai and then, this year, I won: let's hope history
repeats itself!"
-credit: ferrari
