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He goes where no one has any business or the keys to enter: his own world. What might look like introversion from the outside is simply concentration.’
For him, dark glasses were invented to protect a man from other people’s eyes, not the sun.
Of course, these days you’ve got these shitheads whose dads have got millions, so they don’t do anything.
‘Kimi is a cat. Lively and bouncy. A cat does what she wants, a dog does as he’s told. You can’t order Kimi about.’
Formula 1 folk like to talk in the conditional: ‘If the engine had lasted . . . If that driver hadn’t hit me at that corner . . . If the safety car hadn’t been introduced . . . If the sun were the moon and pigs could fly . .
There’s no time to think when you’re on the move and, when the speed stops, it takes time for the mind to catch up. The death of a parent reveals
It’s Spa-Francorchamps in 2002 and the qualifying session for the Belgian GP. The car of Olivier Panis, the BAR-Honda driver, breaks down on top of the steep Eau Rouge section. The car emits a massive cloud of smoke which blocks visibility. Kimi, coming from behind, drives through the cloud of smoke at full pelt and gains the first front-row place of his career.
He respected Nico Rosberg, who said he was giving up driving to spend time with his family. ‘It was cool, I thought. And now he stands there in the paddock commentating on races. I don’t get it; not long ago he said that he wanted to move away from those circles.’ Kimi is interested in at least
We should never think that our own sense of humour is a global truth.
