{"id":14065,"date":"2013-03-18T05:47:13","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T05:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=14065"},"modified":"2013-03-18T05:47:13","modified_gmt":"2013-03-18T05:47:13","slug":"its-probably-one-of-my-easiest-wins-raikkonen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=14065","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s probably one of my easiest wins: Raikkonen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-11371\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/kimi-raokkonen.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"156\" alt=\"kimi-raokkonen\" style=\"margin: 4px; float: left;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/kimi-raokkonen.jpg 250w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/kimi-raokkonen-150x94.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>Melbourne: Kimi R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen opened up Lotus F1 Team\u2019s 2013 championship points account with a maximum deposit by taking victory in the first race of the season; the Australian Grand Prix. Kimi made two pit stops \u2013 whilst most of his opposition made three \u2013 to secure his 20th Grand Prix win, equalling the tally of compatriot Mika H\u00e4kkinen. Romain Grosjean came home in tenth position after a difficult race. Kimi leads the Drivers\u2019 Championship with 25 points to Fernando Alonso\u2019s 18, whilst the team occupies second position in the Constructors\u2019 Championship with 26 points to Ferrari\u2019s 30.\n<\/p>\n<p>Ecstatic about the win Kimi R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen said, \u201cI\u2019m happy for the team and for myself also. We\u2019ve had a quick car all weekend and there were no issues with it either, so we could just focus on trying different things and getting the setup how we wanted. I had a good feeling that we would be ok with the tyres after practice and the team got the strategy perfect. I made a few places at the start and then had a good battle with Lewis [Hamilton] but after that it was quite simple; probably one of my easiest wins. You can\u2019t start the season much better than winning the first race and of course we hope we can be fighting at the front of the Championship, but there\u2019s a long way to go still and we need to keep pushing hard all the way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile Romain Grosjean, who finished 10th, said, \u201cSomething felt wrong with my car, so I have to sit down with the team and analyse where the issue came from. It felt so good all weekend until the race itself, but in the end the race was long and quite difficult for me. We know that Albert Park can be a tricky circuit and the weather has certainly not helped today. It\u2019s been a great weekend for the team with Kimi\u2019s win so it\u2019s clear there\u2019s pace in the car. Let\u2019s hope I can unlock that pace too next weekend in Sepang.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Quite happy with his team&#8217;s performance, Eric Boullier, Team Principal, said, &#8220;I\u2019m very happy. After Kimi\u2019s great start we were hoping that we could achieve a podium finish, then as the race unfolded and we saw the other teams pitting \u2013 showing that they were on three-stop strategies \u2013 our position became stronger and stronger. It\u2019s a fantastic feeling to open the season in this way. Kimi drove impeccably all weekend and gave the team his all. Romain had a difficult race and we have to analyse what went wrong for him. This win is a further testament to all the hard work which goes on at Enstone and we owe tremendous thanks to each and every employee. We head to Malaysia in the best position we could be. \u201d<\/p>\n<p>According James Allison, Technical Director of the team, \u201cIt was a splendid thing we saw today. It\u2019s a day like this which make everything about this job worthwhile and that will be true for everyone involved with the team. It\u2019s great. We were a little deflated after qualifying, as we knew the car had better pace than our grid positions suggested. Nevertheless we were confident from the long run pace we\u2019d seen on Friday that we could make a two-stop strategy work. It was lovely to see the lap times ticking off metronomically without any real fear that the tyres weren\u2019t going to go the distance. Hopefully we can repeat Kimi\u2019s fantastic performance again next weekend with both cars.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-11371\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/kimi-raokkonen.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"156\" alt=\"kimi-raokkonen\" style=\"margin: 4px; float: left;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/kimi-raokkonen.jpg 250w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/kimi-raokkonen-150x94.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>Melbourne: Kimi R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen opened up Lotus F1 Team\u2019s 2013 championship points account with a maximum deposit by taking victory in the first race of the season; the Australian Grand Prix. Kimi made two pit stops \u2013 whilst most of his opposition made three \u2013 to secure his 20th Grand Prix win, equalling the tally of compatriot Mika H\u00e4kkinen. Romain Grosjean came home in tenth position after a difficult race. Kimi leads the Drivers\u2019 Championship with 25 points to Fernando Alonso\u2019s 18, whilst the team occupies second position in the Constructors\u2019 Championship with 26 points to Ferrari\u2019s 30.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-racing-racing"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>It&#039;s probably one of my easiest wins: Raikkonen - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=14065\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"It&#039;s probably one of my easiest wins: Raikkonen - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Melbourne: Kimi R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen opened up Lotus F1 Team\u2019s 2013 championship points account with a maximum deposit by taking victory in the first race of the season; the Australian Grand Prix. 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