Kimi Raikkonen and the oil inconsistency

[GilesGuthrie]

I was writing my usual newsletter for the giles-guthrie.com Fantasy F1 competition, when the following thing struck me:

When Kimi Raikkonen powered blind into the smoke of Panis's lunched engine in qualification in Spa, he claimed he could see the oil from the blown engine, and thus that all was well, he knew where to go on the track.

This claim was backed up by the on-board footage, which clearly showed a streak of oil on the circuit.

So my question is: Why didn't he see this in France?

 

[SkylineObsession]

Maybe he blinked?


F1 cars are quite fast....

 

[vat_man]

Hey, Giles - speaking of oil, did you see the multiple tumble in the Superbikes? V E R Y nasty, and the best I reason I ever saw not to ride motorbikes!

On the vision thing - who knows? The tarmac might be a different colour there, angle of the sun, potentially hundreds of reasons...

 

[GilesGuthrie]

Originally posted by Mustang-man
Maybe he blinked?


F1 cars are quite fast....

Nah, I've seen them. They're not that impressive.

The only thing I could think of was that he did have his mirrors full of Schuey at the time.

I still think that McNish parking his blown-up Toyota on a track-painted sign saying "Toyota" was about the funniest thing of the season...

 

[vat_man]

Originally posted by GilesGuthrie
I still think that McNish parking his blown-up Toyota on a track-painted sign saying "Toyota" was about the funniest thing of the season...

I bet the marketing department were squirming on that one...

There's some speculation and grandprix.com that Massa may have signed a deal for the second seat at Toyota. If the car's half decent it could be very interesting next year...

 

[f1king]

Originally posted by GilesGuthrie


Nah, I've seen them. They're not that impressive.

The only thing I could think of was that he did have his mirrors full of Schuey at the time.

I still think that McNish parking his blown-up Toyota on a track-painted sign saying "Toyota" was about the funniest thing of the season...

May be he farted.

 

[GilesGuthrie]

Originally posted by vat_man

I bet the marketing department were squirming on that one...

There's some speculation and grandprix.com that Massa may have signed a deal for the second seat at Toyota. If the car's half decent it could be very interesting next year...

Yes, well, we're at that stage of the season where there's one space left at a serious team, and a bunch of drivers vieing for it, so naturally on a daily basis there's a new name in the frame. Last I heard, Dario Franchitti was the subject of the rumours, but there's just no way that's gonna happen...

 

[vat_man]

Did you hear Dario moaning about his Jag test - old tyres, old spec car, blah blah blah....

What on earth was that all about?!?

 

[GilesGuthrie]

It certainly seemed a bit odd. Kind of a random outburst. A bit like bridge-burning if you ask me.