{"id":15680,"date":"2013-07-08T04:54:34","date_gmt":"2013-07-08T04:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=15680"},"modified":"2013-07-08T04:54:34","modified_gmt":"2013-07-08T04:54:34","slug":"it-was-a-good-day-for-the-team-raikkonen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=15680","title":{"rendered":"It was a good day for the team: 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\" \/>N\u00fcrburgring: Kimi R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen and Romain Grosjean returned to the podium with Kimi taking second and Romain third in a fast-paced German Grand Prix at the N\u00fcrburgring. Kimi finished just 1.008 seconds behind race winner Sebastian Vettel, who took his first home Grand Prix victory. Kimi remains in third position in the Drivers\u2019 Championship with 116 points, but closes the gap from Fernando Alonso (123) to seven points. The team was the highest scoring in the Constructors\u2019 Championship today, remaining in fourth place on 157 points, with Ferrari on 180 in third.<\/p>\n<p>Kimi started from P5 with a scrubbed set of soft tyres, changing to new medium compound tyres on laps 8 and 24 and a final set of scrubbed soft tyres on lap 49.<\/p>\n<p>Romain started from P4 on a scrubbed set of soft tyres, changing to new sets of medium compound tyres on laps 13, 24 and 40.\n<\/p>\n<p>Happy with his result, Kimi R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen said, \u201cWe had a pretty good last stint of the race, but the cars are close on performance so it\u2019s difficult to overtake. Maybe some more laps would have helped us, but the race is only 60 laps so you have to do your best with that. After my first stop I was stuck behind a Mercedes for a while, but once I was past the car was pretty good. After the safety car three of us were able to pull away, but we were too close on speed to change the order. It was a good day for the team. Of course, we wanted to win; we couldn\u2019t, but we did score the most points here. The warmer temperatures definitely helped us, so let\u2019s hope for some more hot weather in Budapest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Romain Grosjean said that everything went right and it was pretty special when he was leading the race. \u201cAfter some difficult races, everything went right today and it was pretty special when I was leading the race and returning to the podium is naturally a good thing. My car felt great on the first stint with the soft tyres and it\u2019s clear that the summer weather really suits us. Hopefully we\u2019ll have a long summer now in Europe! Letting Kimi past at the end of the race was the sensible thing to do as we were on different strategies and he had more of a chance of going for the win than I did at that point. We didn\u2019t know which tyre would be the best at the end of the race, so we didn\u2019t put all our eggs in one basket,\u201d said Grosjean.<\/p>\n<p>Eric Boullier, Team Principal, said, &#8220;That was a very good race from the team which validates all the hard work which has been going on back at Enstone, so we thank everyone at the factory for their efforts. After three difficult weekends, being on the podium was exactly what we needed. We need to continue like this to make up for lost ground in both championships. The E21 worked very well today and both Kimi and Romain drove superbly. We had a good strategy from the pit wall, some fantastic pit stops, and were it not for losing some time behind both Mercedes, it\u2019s possible that we could have won today. I think we\u2019ll have to ask Pirelli to keep this weekend\u2019s specification of tyres for the rest of the season.\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\" \/>N\u00fcrburgring: Kimi R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen and Romain Grosjean returned to the podium with Kimi taking second and Romain third in a fast-paced German Grand Prix at the N\u00fcrburgring. Kimi finished just 1.008 seconds behind race winner Sebastian Vettel, who took his first home Grand Prix victory. Kimi remains in third position in the Drivers\u2019 Championship with 116 points, but closes the gap from Fernando Alonso (123) to seven points. The team was the highest scoring in the Constructors\u2019 Championship today, remaining in fourth place on 157 points, with Ferrari on 180 in third.<\/p>\n<p>Kimi started from P5 with a scrubbed set of soft tyres, changing to new medium compound tyres on laps 8 and 24 and a final set of scrubbed soft tyres on lap 49.<\/p>\n<p>Romain started from P4 on a scrubbed set of soft tyres, changing to new sets of medium compound tyres on laps 13, 24 and 40.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15680","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 was a good day for the team: 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=15680\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"It was a good day for the team: 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=\"N\u00fcrburgring: Kimi R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen and Romain Grosjean returned to the podium with Kimi taking second and Romain third in a fast-paced German Grand Prix at the N\u00fcrburgring. 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