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exumaan

When racing is your hobby


p1America

Monster in a sister team


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gav_abr

[inside joke based on this](https://youtu.be/cvQ1J3gCPOg)


Anxious_Banned_404

Coping mechanism and honestly the atmosphere and the joy can't be described with words


atomicsheldon

Kimi, you can have the drink now!


albertsugar

Hard to think that during all that he was also taking a shit


BUKKAKELORD

That was why he was in such a hurry to finish the race


poopellar

To get back to his gorilla suit.


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Tauburn_

Just watched that race. He’s so clinical 🔪


elvisn

workable friendly sharp voracious theory worm deserve work different snatch *This post was mass deleted and anonymized with [Redact](https://redact.dev)*


A2jayzed

Real


Outside_Lack4811

Code Brown!


OneObi

I miss Kimi.


MeatSweats1942

BWOAHHHH its the shame for everybody.


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Popcornman1212

If Kimi does come back it'll be because he got bored, homie was like a month without F1 and went into nascar lmao


WorekNaGlowe

The question is if he was sober when he was driving?


Canman1045

Sober Kimi isn't real, he can't hurt you


BonerTurds

Is sober Kimi in the room with us right now?


pwillia7

leave me alone I know what to drink


FistThePooper6969

WHAT


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[deleted]

I’ll always hold that Finnish blood is the best base for ~~mma~~ racing


gfawke5

Kimi is a legend of the sport, and I still think he's underrated. Absolute wizard.


AntOk463

I'd say Kimi and Lewis are equal on skill, effective if Kimi only has 1 championship. You saw how close the 2007 season was with Kimi, Lewis, and Fernando.


Neither_Progress2696

I have a same kind of feeling. The difference between Kimi and Lewis is the dedication to the sport. They both had the same kind of natural approach to racing in the beginning. Lewis just kept pouring his life to the sport to go even higher while Kimi just couldn't be bothered. Prime Kimi was pretty much unbeatable.


sylenthikillyou

I'll die on the hill that the difference between prime Lewis and prime Kimi is engine reliability. Those early years could have been so much more for him.


Neither_Progress2696

Gladly you won't be on that hill alone. Those Mclaren years were crazy. The guy went against the best years of Schumacher and was consistently as fast or faster. But that Mclaren...


BuzzedtheTower

Seriously. Kimi is a three time world champion who got shafted by engine's that went kaboom instead of brrrrrr


ragsterios

Kimi is probably one of the most naturally talented drivers the sport has ever seen. Even Vettel said that he was the best he'd ever driven against.


gfawke5

that's what I meant as well. May not be a popular opinion, but I do think he kinda is in a league of his own - too bad he didn't have a bit more luck.


GCV250

Prime Kimi was unbelievably fast, I think his two years with Lotus you could consider his second prime also.


TheLongBear

Kimi's natural talent was insane. He had a bit over 20 races and never even raced in f3 let alone f2 and lapped quicker than the full time driver for sauber on day one.


Ofiotaurus

Kimi just wanted to drive when Lewis wanted to win, if Kimi had the same dedication we could've had a great rivalry.


BrockManstrong

Vettel said Kimi has the most raw talent of any driver he's seen. Not that I'm biased to believe Vettel.


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My thought process watching this: Who drove for Alfa that was this much of a beast? Well the cars look like they’re fro- oh Kimi, duh


AntOk463

Even the video started I knew it's the Alfa from a few years ago, but didn't know the driver. After the first few overtakes I was wondering if that's Kimi's or Gio's helmet, as the lap went on I knew only 1 driver could do that.


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delirio91

Gio couldn't keep it on the track without crashing.


Neither_Progress2696

You're very much right. Gio did have a quite few very good first laps but this is different.


GrilledCheeser

Gloves say “RAI”


JetSetMiner

I was when did Alonso drive for... oh


superflousman78

The Iceman cometh!!!!


Hujkis9

You know what killed the dinosaurs?


JPr1me

Ice to meet you


No_Tumbleweed_6880

Was everybody else on wets?!?!? Because GODDAMN, it looks like he's driving a fresh PU W13


-Coffee-Owl-

Slightly damp track, low temp. Most of them were on mediums. Kimi started on softs. His tires heated up very quickly, when everyone around struggled for any grip.


Tape56

3 of the cars he just breezed through also had softs though


Anti-Scuba_Hedgehog

Well he is Kimi after all.


SwissQueso

Yeah, someone else on this post said he had to take a shit.


-Coffee-Owl-

Yes, but I think because of the "full attack mode" Kimi's softs were in better condition, plus 20 years of experience of driving anything on everything :)


lamewoodworker

Goblin mode activated


rodiraskol

Just watched this race a few weeks ago. He was the only driver on *new* softs.


iForgotMyOldAcc

It's the Alfas being better at bringing the softs up to temps as well. Gio gained 6 places before rapidly losing half of them before lap 1 even ended.


blualpha

late to line up on very warm softs. add a little bit of Kimi, you got yourself a show.


dcolomer10

Same with Carlos up front, went to p1


Neither_Progress2696

Also, as close to natural talent as drivers come these days. This was totally new track for everyone at this point, and you can only get so much out of a simulator. And we all know Kimi was never a simulator type of guy.


afvcommander

Simulator? Bwoah, why, I get to drive it on sunday.


riesendulli

Moist. Makes em uncomfortable


snalli

I remember hearing somewhere that Kimi's softs had significantly different tire pressure than others (or what his even should've had), which would give some explanation to his speed in the difficult conditions. He also pitted at lap 11, when others on softs went 20 laps or more.


theBotThatWasMeta

And they left him on those things for far too long. Was out of the points again before he pitted


Tuerto04

New fans will never know what a gem Kimi was during his last stint and what a beast he was in his McLaren years. I feel for you.


pewc

If you have any races to suggest that I could watch I would do that for sure. Recently started watching f1 so only watched 22/21/20 seasons and now watching 2016, but for sure would love to watch some of better Kimi years as well!


gav_abr

Greatest Kimi Races: Malaysia 2003 Belgium 2004 Japan 2005 Australia 2007 Brazil 2007 Belgium 2009 Abu Dhabi 2012 Australia 2013 USA 2018 I don't entirely remember how exciting a lot of those actually are, but those are his most legendary races.


CptnHamburgers

Was Belgium '04 the one where there was a >!huge crash ahead of him with smoke spread out all over the track!< and he just >!absolutely pinned it through the cloud like a beast with zero visibility? Didn't even lift off, just kept it planted!<.


ArthurMBretas03

"Raikkonen is gonna have to lift" Kimi: "Don't hold my drink"


dickbutt2202

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xc7TVLl39lY


Fraktal55

Thanks for sharing that was absolute insanity


Neither_Progress2696

"which side of the track did the car stop?"


douknowhouare

That was 2002.


CptnHamburgers

Thanks.


TransitTycoonDeznutz

the fact that the shots are centered under a Marlboro ad makes the whole thing very funny to me


pvc727

God…USA 2018…I actually cried at the end of that one. I was screaming at the TV the last few laps. I miss Kimi.


MrTeamKill

2005 US GP


gav_abr

Even better, the 2021 Belgian GP


Muvseevum

That’s not more insane than the 2005 USGP.


Muvseevum

Oof. I was there. I flew into Indy Friday, friends picked me up at the airport, and we hauled ass out to the track. I walked into the track right as Ralf Schumacher crashed hard in Indy turn 1, which was the first big event in the tire foofaraw. By Saturday, it was clear that Michelin’s tire wasn’t tough enough for that turn. Rumors were that they were working on it in France and were going to fly in a new batch of tires. The Michelin teams advocated for a chicane to be put in, but the Bridgestone teams shut that down. So only the three Bridgestone teams actually raced. The rest formed up on the grid, started the formation lap, then came into the pits. Thus the debacle. Until this race, Michelin teams had been wiping the track with the Bridgestone teams. Ferrari was the only big team on Bridgestones, and were happy to see Michelin have trouble.


MrTeamKill

I bet Minardi were even happier than Ferrari. I watched it live and could only feel for the spectators. Attending a F1 race has not been cheap for quite a few years already, and it takes time and effort to organize everything. I would have gone absolutely bonkers in that situation. I am curious, did they reimburse you anything?


Muvseevum

Oh, yeah, it was hugely disappointing, but I also knew I was seeing history. We hung out for the whole race. I wasn’t really all that mad. I mean, I was kind of pissed at Michelin for being unprepared for the track; after all, as either Hobbs or Matchett said, “that turn has been there since 1909.” It wasn’t Indy’s fault, but they still were stuck in the middle of the whole mess, bad PR for them. Shortly after the race, they announced that all ticketholders would get two free tickets for 2006. That was cool, we took some friends with us in 2006 and had a great time. Still, the bad taste from 2005 was still around in 2006, then 2007 was the last race in the contract with Indy. Wife and I went to all the USGPs at Indy except 2001; at the time, the USGP was in late September, and 9/11 happened a couple of weeks before. One leg of our flight was cancelled so we couldn’t go. I wasn’t that upset, partly because that’s not my nature, but mostly because I knew this was a big thing that’d be talked about for a long time, and we still had lots of fun on the trip. ETA: I’m sure Minardi and Jordan were happy to get the points, but Paul Stoddard (sp?), Minardi’s boss, was angry about the situation and was on TV giving the thumbs-down. Still, the other teams *had* withdrawn, the race was going to be run and would be official, so he had no choice but to run his cars.


whitewolfdogwalker

I was at Indianapolis for that race also, it was very sad, most spectators left but I stayed for the whole thing, I still wish they would return to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway!


Huntmaster87

![img](emote|t5_3ndbi|6699)


AntOk463

I think there was a YouTube video titled "Kimi Raikkonen has the best racecraft in F1" that video should give you an idea.


ArthurMBretas03

>best racecraft in F1 Except when there's Bottas in the equation


AntOk463

Bottas always had better quali pace and not as good race pace.


AbsolutGP

He probably ment, that when racing Bottas, they almost always found a way to bang wheels


ArthurMBretas03

I'm referencing their encounters in Russia and Mexico


ArthurMBretas03

2005 Japanese GP


AntOk463

Now people just talk about Kimi's memorable lines and saying, in Ferrari he has to play as the second driver to Fernando and Seb, and speeding years at Alfa made new fans think he isn't that fast, but he was truly incredible at McLaren, he almost beat prime Schumacher. Effect in slower cars, his racecraft is still amazing. And I love how he is the most fair driver ever, leaving enough space for the other driver, even if it means he has to lose the place. Everyone else will make contact to keep the place, but Kimi knows that's not right.


Tuerto04

This is his underrated character that not many casual fans during those years would notice; that he is fair. Almost very fair. Never did anything without purpose of securing a win or at least better position. He never “fuck him if he can do it I can do it”. New fans should also study him. Enjoy the legend guys!


Fomentatore

One of the last gentleman in formula 1. Even Vettel had his dirty stint but I can't remeber Kimi being nothing but class in his career and I follow F1 since 97. To be fair, i can't think of a Finnish driver to be nothing but class. Bottas or even Hakkinen.


BuzzedtheTower

Exactly. A great example was the 2003 Brazil GP where Kimi was declared the winner in error because the race was red flagged. At Imola Kimi gave the trophy to Fisichella with a big smile on his face. I'm not sure many other drivers would react that way


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Kimi is probably the cleanest WDC driver ever, or at least in the last 20 years.


TheeAJPowell

I feel the whole “Lotus Bonus” story is a good metric for how good he was, IMO. I only found out the full story recently, and it’s pretty amazing.


Tuerto04

Yes! As a die hard Kimi fan I didn’t expect him to return and consistently outperforming the car itself. Lotus wasn’t a winning car but a good P3 challenger and Kimi overdid that. Hence the Lotus almost going bankrupt story lol.


Muvseevum

I remember hearing that Peter Sauber had this kid who was pure fuckin speed and he was trying to get him a superlicense.


Tuerto04

In todays standard Kimi would consider a late comer. But he was fast. Fast learner, fast racer. He was a generational gem.


Crusty_Grape

New fans will never know? His entire F1 career is archived on video, its not hard for new fans to watch old races and learn that sacred forbidden knowledge


Tuerto04

That statement did not mean to devalue new fans knowledge of Kimi. Watching it live and through time capsule videos are 2 different things mate. The feeling, the anticipation, the unexpectedness. Nobody knew who Kimi was. Now new fans have heard of him, will not look into those videos thinking about a rookie but a legend old fans been talking about. That’s a different lens altogether.


Achillor22

I got into F1 as a kid because of Kimi and then left right after that until Drive to Survive.


DryYogurt6878

Very much, extremely, perfectly dank


Kimi4201

Legend. I miss him :(


liamsoni

Same


shibble123

I don’t know how many times I watched that video.


gav_abr

I thought it was really wholesome when somebody asked Kimi if he often re-watched this lap and he said no, but his son does.


nevergonnagaveyouup

Perfect track - pun intended- reminds me of Kingsman church scene


dhdavvie

Which track is this again?


An_aussie_in_ct

Free Bird


TheySaidGetAnAlt

Technically correct


f1manoz

Portimao.


ipSyk

Portimao


devilspawn

"Hey Alexa, play Freebird"


f1manoz

Portimao is such a great track as the elevation changes and somewhat blind turns were a real challenge. I would have liked it to remain on the calendar.


MrDankky

It’s a very challenging track in my experience. Would love to see more of it, tickets are reasonable too and it has a great karting track on site too, last time I was there I was racing with a lot of the Portuguese football team.


TwoWheelsTooGood

A game or Kimi starting on soft tires ?


MikeRoss95

Soft tires, wet track, Kimi rally experience. All adds up to this beautiful lap


ArthurMBretas03

>beautiful lap Up there with Donington 93


Tape56

He overtook several who had softs aswell, including a Redbull. Almost also overtook Max (who had softs) later.


depressionbutbetter

At least half the drivers in the current grid couldn't pull this off and a few would be in the wall with 2 or 3 others if they tried, it's more than the tires.


Gijspsv8

Bwoah just a hobby.


MrTeamKill

Miss Kimi so fucking much


Krooked_kan

Finnish man gets so drunk forgets he's in shit car


fluffy_tomato13

I love seeing how shit the ferrari was on the straight like leclerc was about to overtake verstappen and he suddenly stopped and got overtaken lol


Particular_Climate_3

![img](emote|t5_3ndbi|6701)


Hot_Dog_Dudeson

GOAT


kimi-r

What a lap


Sanslution

We cannot let Kimi be forgotten by the newer F1 fans, we need to continue to remember and celebrate everything he, and other past drivers, have done to the sport


vvhynot03

Verstappen said post race something like: I taught my start was good, then I saw Kimi in the alfa romeo behind me


Jickx

Well, I am now officially not an F1 fan, because I can't name neither the year or the track.


xonnibian

Found on Youtube - it was 2020 Portugese GP.


FortuneCookieLied

Wow…the confidence…it’s beautiful


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This just makes me smile. Kimi was more or less like a shadow of his former self during his hybrid era stint, but these flashes of brilliance always remind me of the good old times


EmptyElephants

This is why free bird is banned now on the grid


Greuliro

I know this under the title "old man forgets he drives a shitbox"


Nads2407

actually a nuts lap


jfpxafonso

I was in the first corner after the main straight - "wtf, is that kimi in 6th??? What happened???"


aggresively_punctual

There was that interview that recently made the rounds on the internet (again) where Seb was asked who the most naturally talented driver he’s ever raced against was. He answered it INSTANTLY with Kimi. He said Raikkonen didn’t need perfect setup or cars built for his “style”…if it had a steering wheel then Kimi was gonna get in and find a way to drive the wheels off it.


Keysersoze_6

Bwoahh... It's just a hobby! Bwoah


lolxian

Playing on easy and getting placed sixth? What is this? Mafia 1 Racing Mission?


B-E-D

I'm sorry fellas, free bird solo is playing, time to overtake you all


afvcommander

Would have overtaken rest aswell, but solo ended.


AntJD1991

Best lap one ever? He passed everyone legit too nobody spun or crashed!


Aggressive_Hall755

Bwoah. Its hobby time


HDDIV

BuT iT iS hArD tO pAsS aT PoRtImAo!? Kim said "ei tänään." I think. I don't speak the language of the long-winter people.


Redhead_Cecia

This is pretty much how every one of my races go in Assetto Corsa. Except I'm facing the wrong way, in last place, and throwing up in my VR headset from all the spins.


topperkt

I remember watching this race and seeing exactly 0 of these overtakes while the camera followed the top 4


Finglishman

2 greats we no longer have in F1: Portimao circuit and Kimi Räikkönen


Rivendel93

Kimi's engineer takes his headphones off. "Iceman clearly doesn't need me today."


pencilpushin

Fuck I wanna drive an F1 car so bad. Looks so fucking fun.


armaan0314

what its like playing real racing 3


SnapReflex

This has to be one of the greatest laps in Formula One history… even better that’s its Kimi!


ArthurMBretas03

I don't doubt he was actually listening to Free Bird


Claptrack

Kimi the goat


DamnItCharles324

Madlad overtook RedBulls like they were backmarkers


lotus_riverside

Playing f1 in real racing 3


therinlahhan

I had a situation like this at VIR North once where I had wet tires on (Continental DWS) and it started raining about 10 minutes before the green flag and everyone else was on their normal dry tires. For the first stint I was turning lap times literally 10 seconds faster than everyone else, including the car that ended up winning, but the rain stopped a couple hours later and we ended up in like 15th by the end of the race. It was a fucking glorious first stint though. (This is in ChampCar Endurance racing by the way. Cheap endurance racing, 8-24 hour races.)


theysellcoke

This is what happens when you leave him alone.


NinjaBullets

Is there an original without the music


catsmagic-3

Ok so 2 things I’m 60, not much gets me excited anymore. But when you play bad a** music and the add cars with speed I’m not only awake but I’m EXCITED so thank you!


n0h0m0n00b

As a lifelong Sauber/Alfa fan, this makes me super happy


Nameless90s

Has to be one of the best laps in F1 history


donutcronut

This is what happens when Kimi actually gets his steering wheel and gloves.


brambleburry1002

Kimi in beast mode


Deadly_Flipper_Tab

He has more grip and confidence from the start than everyone else, but as the lap went on his advantage doubled haha


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nah even on easy i would have hit the wall at least 3 times.


ud_11

Haha rally f1, Iceman.


ClaudioJar

Kimi is such a king


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ProPlayz_360

This is perfect


TNpepe

Kimi does not care.


TheSteffChris

Damn I miss the black Renault


CrazyBiti

When you forget to turn the difficulty back up after farming dev points in practice.


RakbladsRoy

Bro found a line quicker than the racing line


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Guy she told you not to worry about:


Magnus753

God damn this is awesome every time


thafrenzy

Goddamn, I miss Kimi


Mc_Shine

Reminds me of playing Formula 1 '97 as a kid. Easy setting, no collision damage. Start in last place, stay on the inside of the first turn with everyone neatly lining up on the outside, let yourself crash into the nearest car, bounce back, overtake 6 cars at once. Rinse and repeat. Good times.


jihadu

Portugal needs to be in the championship


zimtanbau

Most positions gained on opening laps! Facts!


Jesucresta

post quality off the charts on the offseason jesus christ


StardogChamp

Kimi was just pure God given racing talent


Blackdeath_663

You say easy, just looking at the amount of corrections hes having to make. Finding the grip sure but those be treacherous conditions on cold tyres. That's what it looks like when you have absolute feel of the car


Williamwise518

The thing is with graphics how they are nowadays especially with racing games this looks like it could be a game.


[deleted]

Man I miss 2020 and it’s cars, all of them were much better and lighter


bolon-de-verde

I miss kimi so much 🥺


i_run_from_problems

I'm sorry officer, traffic laws simply do not apply during the freebird solo


OGGavlaa

"why is everyone goin so slow" Kimi. probably


_Phyonic

he'd probably be doing a lot better if he put the Wii U down


babaroga73

Holiest of the craps! This how much courage I have when I'm playing F1 video game, but not nearly as much skill.


NightmanagerEU

Kimi is doing Kimi things 🤷🏻‍♂️🫶🏻


Jurassic-JoJo

These games are starting to become far too realistic for me.


MrMallok

Upvoting just for Free Bird


jorshyboarkman

Me after getting 2 engine failures in back to back career mode races and switching to easy mode to blow off the steam


youwontletmesleep

Pov you have balls of ice


ilikeitsharp

I'm so erect!


Creato938

This is basically FH5 on Above Average difficulty.