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Kimi the car breaker?; - according to Zarnardi
Topic Started: Feb 10 2007, 01:01 AM (267 Views)
Mrs Shrek
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"Raikkonen went to Ferrari because his McLarens always broke down," Italian Zanardi, who last drove in F1 for Williams in 1999, told La Gazzetta dello Sport.

He continued, "But now it seems like his red car is always broken and (Ron) Dennis' machines run like clockwork."


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Rob
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Few peoblems with Zanardi's statements.

1. Kimi didn't have a more break downs than his teammates (not enough to claim his as a car breaker)

2. Kimi had 2 mechanical retirements last year, heat shield fire and throtle. I don't see how he could be blamed for either. His teammates had 3 mechanical failures.

In 05 Kimi had a number of failures with brand new engines, at Silverstone for one.

3. Alonso had had some problems in testing so far this year, and one more engine failure than Kimi in 06.

4. Ron's machines do not run like clockwork. DC had 4 mechnical retirements in 01, Mikka 6 plus losing the Spanish GP 500m from the end. DC in 02 had 4 DNF's, 3 caused by his car, Kimi had 5 engines go, one 5 laps into the race. He also has an exhaust pipe fail, and a rear wing. 03 DC 4 mechnical DNF's to Kimi's 1 (engine 25 laps into the race at Nurgburg Ring). In 04 every engine failure Kimi had was less than 15 laps in. He also had a transmition failure 40 laps in at Sepang.

Alonso had 5 mechnical DNF's in 03.


Kimi isn't a car breaker. He pushes his car hard simply because he has to, he has never had the luxury of having the fastest, toughest car like Alonso and Shumi.




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Red Andy
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I don't think Kimi is a car breaker, so to speak - you'd have to seriously torture an F1 engine to make it blow up on purpose - but I do feel that he is a little bit erratic, especially when things aren't going his way. In that respect he is very like Michael Schumacher: when things are going well, he's a genius, but if the car isn't to his liking then he can get frustrated, push too hard and make mistakes.
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Problem with Zanardi. He was hammered by Ralf when at Williams. Is he one to comment? And anyone with an ounce of sense knows that all teams encounter problems in testing. Renault have had loads this winter, for example.

If Kimi IS a car breaker...I'd rather watch him push to the limit and have his car fail a few times than watch him ponce around doing nothing like some drivers do...
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Monty
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Its just a crap excuse some critics use because they cant understand why Kimi is so fast. Mr Zanardi only scored 1 point in his f1 career so i think its pretty stupid for him to make a comment like that.
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Most of Kimi's Macca failures weren't his fault I believe but the fact remains that some were.

The lock-up at Europe 2005 was a very silly error and lost him 10 vital points which could have changed the shape of that season, and the jury is still out on whether he was partly to blame or fully to blame for that driveshaft failure at imola 2005.

I am convinced there are times also when he pushed the revs higher than the team want him to.

If he has lots of failures at Ferrari this year then there will be alot of question marks but I don't expect him to have too many retirements unless he makes loads of mistakes and has alot of accidents.
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Those 2 failures in 2005 that you mention were definitely and probably Kimi's fault respectively, but if you look at the engine failures...DC had them, Montoya had them, de la Rosa had them...

I guess this season will show, but Sato had loads in 2004 and not many in 2005, I recall...
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Rob
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Also I think Zanardi forgot that Kimi is going to Ferrari, where most of the tech team are members of the Disciples of Ross, who's golden rule was having the fastest car won't mean crap if it cannot finish. Could be the reason people were so surprised to see when Shumi had a break down in Japan.

If Kimi is a car breaker he will need to up his game to destroy his new Ferrari.
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