Massa won't slow down for Raikkonen

Now Schumacher has retired from Formula 1 a new era will begin at Ferrari. Kimi Raikkonen will join Felipe Massa in January 2007. Massa said he welcomes the Finn but won't raise his foot from the pedal.

Felipe Massa will start preparing the Ferrari for 2007 at the end of November alongside Ferrari's test drivers. Kimi Raikkonen will have to wait for his first outing until January. Alongside Schumacher, Felipe Massa was doing everything he could to help the team and Schumacher to win the title, but next year it will be different. "I will not raise my foot from the pedal to Kimi can pass me," Massa told Gazzetta dello Sport. "When I joined Ferrari I knew I was going to be their second driver. I have helped where I could and I think I have done well. Now we're on an equal level so I won't be lifting my foot for him."

Kimi makes the wrong headlines again (The only driver to miss Pele's presentation)

Following the season ending Brazilian grand prix, Kimi Raikkonen has returned to the headlines for the wrong reasons. The Finn, bidding to finish his McLaren career on a high with a front row start, was interviewed on the Interlagos grid by British broadcaster ITV's Martin Brundle. Brundle observed that Raikkonen, 27, was the only driver to miss Pele's presentation of a gold trophy to Michael Schumacher, whom he replaces at Ferrari in 2007 and beyond. "Yeah," Kimi answered. "You'll get over it, then ?" Brundle asked sarcastically. Raikkonen answered : "Hey, I was having a sh*t.
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""Thanks for that," Brundle recoiled. "At least you'll have a nice light car on the grid ..."Tabloid newspapers in England reported that ITV were 'inundated' with complaints from viewers of the live feed.

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Iceman not too sad about final race at McLaren

Kimi Raikkonen will race his last Grand Prix this weekend in Brazil for the McLaren Formula 1 team. The 'Iceman' will join emotional Ferrari team next season and is excited about the upcoming year.

Looking ahead of his final race Raikkonen said: "It is the last race, but then it was coming at some point. It is one way a sad thing for nice people and good friends and so on, but then I made my decision to move and I am happy where I am going and I am excited about next year and hopefully can go far." It is expected that McLaren won't release Raikkonen from his contract and thus the Finn will be not able to test the Ferrari until January 2007. Raikkonen is not worried about Ferrari's preparations though for 2007. "They will be testing in the winter and Felipe will be driving, so anything that is new will be done. January will be enough time for me to get ready for the season."

Raikkonen wants to leave McLaren with win

Kimi Raikkonen is determined to give McLaren Mercedes one more Grand Prix victory in his final race for the team next weekend at Interlagos. Raikkonen has taken nine wins in five seasons with the team.
"I am of course sad to be leaving the team," said Raikkonen who heads off to Ferrari to replace Michael Schumacher. "We have had some great times together and it would be fantastic to go out with a win. It is going to be tough, but we are all pushing hard to try and make it happen."McLaren is facing its first winless season since 1996, unless Raikkonen or team mate de la Rosa can spring a surprise in Brazil.

After Japanese Grand Prix KR:

Kimi Raikkonen, McLaren (5th):"That was a good result for where we started the race, but it is not really good enough to be fighting for fifth place, and not what we wanted out of the weekend. The car felt a lot better today especially in the long runs, but our race today was lost in qualifying yesterday where we just couldn't get the speed out of the car that was possible."