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In
his official column at Ferrari.com Kimi looks back to his race
weekend of the Brazialian Grand Prix in Interlagos, where he
finished on the sixth place after a bit of bad luck.
"First
of all I want to congratulate Jenson for winning the Championship:
I know how he’s felling right now… He had a great start of the
season, winning six out of seven races, while the second part was
pretty difficult for him. But a Championship is decided by the
points you gain as of March and he gained more than anybody else.
This
year we didn’t have the possibility to fight for the World
Title.
We
didn’t have the right performance to fight for the win in every
race. As we expected we had a difficult weekend also in Brazil,
but without what happened on the first lap I would have been able
to gain a place on the podium. We had some problem with graining
in Friday’s free practice sessions, but we managed to improve
the car’s set up, so that my lap times were competitive in the
race. When there’s rain, the qualfying turns into a lottery. We
were very fast with the super wets over the weekend and I was
always amongst the top three. With the intermediates I lost some
grip and it became more difficult for me. I still managed to gain
the fifth position on the starting grid, which was a good position
for the race. I had a great start, benefitting also from the fact
that I had soft tyres, while the others around me were on the hard
compound. I had a good exit in corner 3 and I tried to attack
Webber, benefitting from the KERS: he suddenly changed his racing
line and before I could even think I hit the grass with two wheels
and damaged the front wing. In this moment my hopes for a place
amongst the top three ended up in smoke.
I
came back to the box and we changed the strategy to a race with
just one stop. While I was in the pitlane I saw Heikki’s car in
front of me with the hose stuck to his car, fuel came out and hit
me even in the eyes. I was in a ball of fire for a second: I
almost stopped to get out of the car and when it was over my eyes
still hurt.
Unfortunately
in the first part of the race I was stuck for a long time behind
Grosjean: when he stopped I had a free track. All in all the sixth
place is a good result, considering what had happened. Although I
don’t like the fact that we lost points to McLaren in a race
where they started behind us. Now we’re one point behind in the
standings: everything can happen in Abu Dhabi and we’ll give it
everything to regain the third place."
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