The last appointment with the qualifications of this world championship coincides with the last Saturday in Formula 1 of Kimi Raikkonen, who will say goodbye to the Circus at the end of the race on Sunday, when he will concretize his retirement from competitions. The 42-year-old fromAlfa Romeo, however, he would certainly have preferred to honor his 353rd and final pole hunt with a very different result from that achieved in Abu Dhabi. His 18th position in fact it will force him to start even behind the two Williams of Latifi and Russell, with whom the Swiss team is fighting for the conquest of the eighth place in the constructors’ championship.
On a day characterized by the homage of Ferrari, which gave the Finn a model of the car with which he won the title in 2007, Iceman kept his nickname and commented on the outcome of the qualifications, briefly analyzing what happened in the last moments of the first heat before the elimination: “My pace was pretty good on the last lap of Q1 – He admitted – the weather looked good too, but I ended up sideways at Turn 13 and that’s it. It’s a shame because the car was fine. Tomorrow is another day – he concluded – we are starting rather backwards, but we will try to have a good race as much as possible and bring home a good result ”.
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In this way, therefore, a parenthesis closes with qualifying that lasted twenty years, during which Raikkonen won 18 pole positions. After the first, obtained in the 2003 European GP with McLaren, the Finn signed the last fastest lap in the 2018 Italian GP, also setting the track record at the time and thrilling the Ferrari public, as well as the commentator. of the Finnish TV channel.
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