Raikkonen’s big chance to end his 91-race wait for a win

23 comments on “Raikkonen’s big chance to end his 91-race wait for a win”

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   Sravan Krishnan (@sravan-pe)
   30th September 2017, 17:38

   One thing I’ve learned from being a Raikkonen fan these last few years is never to expect too much. I’ve had hopes shattered quite a few times. He does have as good a chance tomorrow as he’s had at any point since his Ferrari return, and there’s reason for Ferrari to give him the perfect strategy in that Vettel is out of the picture for victory.
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      Sensord4notbeingafanboi (@peartree)
      30th September 2017, 21:47

      I wouldn’t want Ferrari’s best strategy, it reminds me of Shanghai and Monaco. Honestly I think Lewis lap had a lot of room for improvement, I don’t think that the Ferrari can keep up with the race pace and as SPA showcased, Ferrari can’t overtake a Mercedes not even with a good run. Raikkonen’s best chance was Monaco and Raikkonen ruined it, really good setup for qualifying very poor race pace. If Raikkonen can get past Lewis at the start I give him a 50% chance of doing it and 25% if Bottas manages to get 3rd at the start.
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   Sravan Krishnan (@sravan-pe)
   30th September 2017, 17:58

   That would be the most depressing possible outcome for Raikkonen.

   And therefore it’s more likely that it will happen. Just the Raikkonen rule these days.
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      formevic (@formevic)
      30th September 2017, 18:48

      Seb is likely to gain much. He’ll get a great benefit with the installation of new piece all 5 PU components. Note the ICE is the evo one, early foresee debut in Japan. My bet Seb’ll find himself best than 5th and close to Kimi. At point the positions swap will be a great dilemma. I’d go for Kimi anyway, he deserve the victory chance and fairness from Team, he already helped Seb with the steel problem coverage.
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         formevic (@formevic)
         30th September 2017, 18:50

         *steering (wheel)
3. 

   Billys (@bilarxos)
   30th September 2017, 17:59

   Something is wrong with the sector 3 times , isn’t there!
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      Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
      30th September 2017, 19:44

      @bilarxos Apologies, fixed now.
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         Billys (@bilarxos)
         1st October 2017, 17:16

         Don’t apologies keith, things like that is normal to happened. After all we are just humans. keep up the good work!
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   Baron (@baron)
   30th September 2017, 18:09

   As much as I’d like a Raikkonen win (and I think it would also give F1 a much needed boost period), I genuinely think he’s forgotten how to win, but my fingers are crossed. Forza Kimi!
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      Bonbonjai
      30th September 2017, 18:41

      Actually think vestappen has a much better chance of winning this from 3rd, than Raikkonen. I don’t think he has forgotten to win though. The start is going to be the most important thing. If Lewis get into the lead, he will just manage the pace. That car in clean air, even without knowing how they will manage their tyre, is beast.
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   Phylyp (@phylyp)
   30th September 2017, 18:49

   Like @sravan-pe & @baron said, I’ve felt let down often enough by Kimi underperforming – be it due to his driving, his machinery, strategy or pure bad luck. I’m not going to hold my breath for Kimi on the podium, let alone a victory.
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   n0b0dy100
   30th September 2017, 19:09

   Kimi’s overdue for a win in his 2nd career at Ferrari. Ferrari owe him one after he’s playing the #2 role all year.
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      Sensord4notbeingafanboi (@peartree)
      30th September 2017, 21:51

      Kimi has played #2 role because of Kimi and Kimi alone, it hasn’t been like Mercedes.
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         Martin
         30th September 2017, 22:38

         ti hasn’t been like Mercedes

         Well that’s nonsense.
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      f12007v (@f1fan-2000)
      1st October 2017, 3:07

      Kimi is number 2 because he cant beat seb
7. 

   KaIIe (@kaiie)
   30th September 2017, 19:46

   I’m guessing it’ll be an easy win for Hamilton. The problems in practice were again one of those imaginary issues that always seem to come up – like when we hear Hamilton reporting problems on his radio, yet he keeps on going – and he still wins.

   Räikkönen versus the Red Bulls is an interesting one to watch, as they should be able to split strategy to attack him. Although, of course, Verstappen is due to retire again, so it might not matter that much. Bottas should snatch a lonely fourth or fifth, while Vettel should grab a sixth easily.
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      BaKano (@bakano)
      30th September 2017, 21:09

      Although I am convinced the race pace of the Mercedes, including the one from Lewis, will be not so good as during qualifying, I also think Hamilton is the most likely winner, as we seen that the driver in clean air during the first lap is almost able to pull a (significant, for just one lap) gap and then manage. Of course that all depends how close the peloton (being Raikkonen or the Red Bulls) will stay to manage passing via a different strategy (undercut or running longer).
      So I think we have 60% chances of the championship being decided after this race (a win for Hamilton should allow him to comfortably keep the lead until the end).
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      Sensord4notbeingafanboi (@peartree)
      30th September 2017, 21:55

      @kaiie It’s been like that since the new PU era. It’s almost as if Lewis has the need to portrait how hard and how good he’s been, like the McLaren SPA telemetry debacle. I think it’s the fear of being known as he made Vettel look like as a 4 times world champ for RB. I don’t think Ham has anything to be ashamed of, he has had 1 or 2 bad weekends per season for 4 seasons, that’s astonishing.
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   David BR (@david-br)
   30th September 2017, 20:26

   An intriguing question is what would Ferrari do under similar circumstances this weekend. If Raikkonen fails to finish ahead of Hamilton he championship chances will be over. So would Ferrari pre-empt that on the final lap by having their drivers swap positions?

   Even more intriguing, if Raikkonen is behind Hamilton at the end, but several places ahead of Vettel, what will they do? Get him to lose positions until Vettel can get past him? It would be the cold-blooded Ferrari way of maximizing the points for their number 1 driver.
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   Tifoso1989 (@tifoso1989)
   30th September 2017, 21:15

   Raikkonen chances of scoring a win tomorrow will depend on the fact that if he can make it to the 3rd corner without losing the place to Verstappen because if he falls behind him he will ruin his tyres while trying to overtake and Hamilton will run away with it.
   If he manages to keep his position after the 1st lap he’ll be in a good shape for the win given Ferrari’s strong race pace and his superior tyre management skills. That said, external factors like strategy, safety car, reliability and changeable conditions mean that anyone from Rai,Hamilton,VER and even Daniel could actually win the race. A podium for Vettel could be also possible.
10. 

    Julian (Mr. Sakura) (@xiasitlo)
    30th September 2017, 22:16

    As I already said Thursday. Hamilton all the way. Accept it. Kimi is even showing more sessions in which he wastes getting a more optimal time. Kimi fans should let that fact rest and take comfort knowing he would’ve probably won Singapore. I think what we should watch out more for is the RB vs RB fight, if the cars stays alive, it will turn tense or even ugly.
    In the rain Kimi will have better chances but I think they’ll indeed decide to switch him if Vettel lines-up behind the RBs and then Kimi will not get a chance anyway. It looks like the FIs in particular could bring it to RB if they can’t out-drag or outsmart Kimi. Vettel will be there too but the pack will need a SC as the rain will not be a classic thunderstorm but rather a steady drizzle, so if you won’t see it around the start, it will probably come too late.

    Gasly is something to watch out for. But Vandoorne will be the true MVP. The Honda has no place in this field, so Alonso’s first start shenanigans will not get him that much, which means he’ll need to beat Vandoorne in pure race pace, maybe even in changeable conditions and finally we’ll see Alonso’s overstated on-track legend status starting to crumble. And Palmer will again show what I thought 2 years ago; a lot of truly unintelligent anonymous opinions on Maldonado maybe had nothing to do with his on-track qualities but more with him not having a particular flag near to his name.

    So only two things that can screw this boring race up: ”Oh noooo! Noooo! …….” or a ridiculous jump start of Verstappen in which Kimi doesn’t cut him off as he’ll need to cut Kimi off or just be out-dragged to the outside.
11. 

    georgeboole
    30th September 2017, 22:21

    Bwaah… I ll just crash on Verstappen…
12. 

    Homerlovesbeer (@homerlovesbeer)
    1st October 2017, 0:29

    Dan and Max have different amount of tyres left which places Dan at a disadvantage.

    Max has an extra 2 sets of new tyres over Dan.

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