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Thu Jun 24, 2010 9:06 am
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Kimster
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Location: TURKEY
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ı'm not wearing my kimi- ferrari hat. ı made my own kimi t-shirt. just kimi no brand:) besides kimi himself is a brand  |
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Thu Jun 24, 2010 4:28 pm
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Thu Jun 24, 2010 5:12 pm
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Thanks for that Wenny  |
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Thu Jun 24, 2010 5:13 pm
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Ice Soldier
Joined: 17 Aug 2007
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Location: Germany
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Aaaaw Martin    thanks wenny 
Courtesy of Leijona
| Quote: | Kimi has lived in Switzerland already for 10 years
HERE'S MY HOME SCENERY [picture of Kimi at his backyard]
- We searched for years for an unbuilt property until we found a completely move-in ready Villa Butterfly, Kimi Räikkönen introduced.
How embarrasing! Seiska's reporter was late for the interview because of a break-problem in the airplane and because of missing luggage. F1-champion and WRC-driver Kimi Räikkönen had to wait 2,5 hours for the interview to begin and arranged his already tight schedule again.
- No worries, things happen, Kimi comforted and noted that because of such roadblocks he often resorts to rent a private plane.
- I usually do my Middle-Europe trips with the car. Last night I rented this Ford from Austria where I had a TV-shoot and I drove 500km home. Tomorrow I will leave for a 400km trip with my co-driver Kaj and with my friends to Genova, where I will try to drive on tarmac for the first time, Kimi told while he was showing the beautiful scenery of his homecountry.
Abroad his whole adulthood
Kimi, who celebrated his 30th birthday last fall, moved away from Finland already before he turned 18.
First he lived in Holland, then for 1,5 years in England. He did however finish the army in his native country where he still has couple aparments.
In Switzerland he has lived permanently for over ten years and he doesn't plan to move away. In Finland he visits a couple of times a year to greet his friends and family.
-It's nice to visit Finland but there isn't enough to do to make me stay and live there, the speed-rascal noted.
Here you don't hear karaoke!
Kimi lives 30km from Zürich in the village of Baar where he moved with his wife Jenni a year ago from Wollerau.
-We searched for about 5 years for a property where we could build our own house. Then we found Villa Butterfly which was ready for move-in and had a name too.
The stylish, beautifully furnished home is situated on a hillside of a small village, where is amazing view to the Zug lake and the Alps behind it. The scenery from the living room is like work of art no matter what the weather is.
-Although there is a short distance to the clubs in Zürich, I don't visit them often. I like to scour the cafés and bars of the small towns of Switzerland more. I haven't found any karaoke places from here, Kimi smirked.
MY FRIENDS LEND MY HOLIDAY-HOME!
Many people imagine Switzerland as the neat paradise of happy and rich people. Kimi tells however, that the country has many problems including the living politics.
-You can own your house but the property where your home stands belongs nearly always to the government!
The suidice rates confuses Kimi
-In Zürich there is also a very bad drug-problem. I was also surprised to read some time ago that the Swiss people do suicides nearly as much as Finns, Kimi wondered.
The statistics of WHO from 2008 tell that Switzerland has risen after the millenium to the 17th spot, while Finland has fallen to the 14th position. In Switzerland most of the suicides are done by elderly people.
Three dogs as company
In Kimi's garage the attention is fixed to two beauties, which stand beside each other looking like their abandoned. Iceman I and Iceman II are motorcycles customized by German Walz Hardcore Cycles, which Kimi got a few years ago and has been driving them a couple of times to the races in Middle-Europe. The bikes have also been the attraction in Helsinki's American Car Show.
- I haven't used the motorcycles lately since it is boring to drive alone no matter how interesting the roads are, Kimi confessed.
Although Kimi doesn't have proper driving-company, he doesn't suffer from loneliness. The doors of Villa Butterfly are open for friends, who willingly travel to accompany him in different racing venues.
Kimi also gives open-handedly the keys to his friends, who want to have a vacation for example in his villa in Phuket.
-I have been there only once. I should probably travel to Thailand again but isn't there pretty uncomfortable heat right now?
Kimi and Jenni also have three dogs as their company, a German Shepherd Ajax and Jack Russel terriers Peppi and Reiska, who travel easily between the two home countries.
THERE ARE FRACTURES IN MY SPINE!
Kimi's first rally-season has been very ascending and will be stay in the history of sport, since Räikkönen is only the second F1-driver in the worlds who has also in WRC-rally reached for points. The man tells that he enjoys himself in Red Bull because of the professional and relaxed atmosphere of the team.
I don't follow F1 actively
Kimi plays down his achievements in rally contrary to the people who know the rally-world, who say Räikkönen is a exceptional talent behind any wheel.
Kimi hasn't followed the F1-races actively, just like many other Finns either, after the Iceman was out of the picture.
-Although I was in Monaco during the race, I only glanced the happenings from the TV. I didn't go to the paddock even once.
Of course Kimi has his F1-favourites.
-I want Red Bull to win and it would be great if Sebastien Vettel would become world champion, Kimi hopes for his friend who was fifth after the Canadian GP.
Spinal disc herniation an annoyance for Kimi
The beginning of Kimi's racing-season was painful, since an old spinal disc herniation started to remind of itself.
-There are hairline capillary cracks on my vertebra. They have originated from my several different crashes during the ten years.
Kimi fortunately got into a new kind of laser-treatment in Strasbourg, France, and he wasn't operated but the liquid which had build up in the distention was sucked with a needle which made the pressure on the nerves loosen.
- I will have to go to a 2-hour operation once more and after that I have to be more relaxed for couple of weeks.
I LOST MY DRIVING LICENSE!
Kimi keeps his muscular strenght up daily. There is a well-equipped gym in his Switzerland home. He also likes to drive different kinds of water-vehicles.
People who know Kimi have said many times that if he wouldn't have chosen motorsport as his sport, he would have been a hardcore ice hockey player.
Ice hockey is a very dear sport to Kimi and he has many friends who are NHL-stars.
An ice-hockey hall in the neighbourhood
Kimi wanted to show the reporter the big pride of his home region, the EV Zug ice rink, which will be opened to the public in August. The assistant coach is Waltter Immonen and there are many other Finns seen on the ice.
-Soon I will be able to play ice-hockey here with my old buddies!
To Finland in July
The worldchampion zigzags in the Swiss traffic calmly and safely - occassionally he remarks about the interesting lane switches of other drivers just like Finns usually do. Only the parallel parking which is inches from the car's plates makes the people in the car babble.
- The police are too strict in traffic in this country. The speed limits are the same as in Finland and violation-customs are similar too. If you get three speeding tickets you will loose your driving license for a month. This happened to me a couple of years ago, Kimi revealed.
Kimi's next rally-contest is in Bulgay on 9.-11th of July and in Finland's rally-paths the man will drive at the end of July. After the interview he was fantasticly places 2nd in Italy's rally.
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| Quote: | Here are some of the comments beside the pictures:
[Picture of Kimi at his backyard] Kimi lives in the German-speaking region of Switzerland, in Zug canton. -I understand a few words of German. In my home region I can get along with English, Kimi told.
[Kimi and backyard] - I can go around freely in Switzerland and I'm not recognized here like in Finland. The neighbours are not too nosy either, Kimi explained at the backyard of Villa Butterfly.
[Picture of the Switzerland-home] Villa Butterfly got its name already from its previous owner. The gorgeous house has i.a. inside and outside swimming pools, a gym and a movie theatre.
[Kimi and Mercedes] Kimi was cruising with a rare Mercedes Benz CLK DTM-car in Helsinki still two years ago.
[Kimi at harbour] Kimi has a possibility for watersport in his home-lake. - I like to cruise with jet skis with my friends.
[Kimi's yacht] Kimi won't bring the Iceman-yacht he got a year ago to Finland. At the moment it is anchored at the yacht-harbour in Monte Carlo. - I might spend the Midsummer (Days) there because Jenni has a horserace there at that time.
[Kimi playing golf] -In Switzerland and in the neighbouring countries you can find fantastic golf courses. I enjoy myself better at the greens than at the ski slops in the Alps. The picture is from Monaco in 2003.
[Kimi sitting at a café] - I don't bother to go to bigger towns. I rather visit a café in smaller villages. One of my favourite places is a marina beside a lake in Zürich and its restaurant Searose.
[Kimi and reporter at café] Kimi was okay with driving Seiska's reporter, who was hours late from the unusual interview, around. -No worries! I don't have nothing else to do and why would I sit at home all the time, the man laughed.
[Kimi at the ice rink] - This new ice-hockey hall reminds me of the home rink of Espoo Blues. In the fall I will be able to test the ice with the guys, Kimi introduced the arena in Zug.
[Kimi and Kaj] The Red Bull driver Kimi and co-driver Kaj Lindström are friends also outside the racing-tracks. - We do long hours together so you have to get along and you can't lose your temper because of irrelevant issues.
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Put the pedal to the metal,Kimi!!!!  |
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Thu Jun 24, 2010 5:14 pm
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Ice Soldier
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Location: Germany
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http://www.iltalehti.fi/ralli/2010062311928716_ri.shtml?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
| Quote: | Now we are searching for Kimi behind the media image: 'He is absolutely not a quiet guy'
Keskiviikko 23.6.2010 klo 23.13
Kimi Räikkönen is a prisoner of his reputation.
Distant, ice cold and uninterested or funny, relaxed and social?
Perhaps a bit distant, in no way ice cold.
Definitely funny and talkative.
After several calls Kimi Räikkönen's persona starts taking shape.
We got an unusually truthful picture of Kimi Räikkönen in the latest DNA-commercial where a man wearing a hoodie makes fun of himself, smiles a lot - and talks only after the press conference is over.
He really talks like a pot full of beans.
- The media image isn't right in his case. He is in no way a quiet guy, Kaitsu assures.
- There are two different worlds. Those who know him talk about a completely different Kimi than those who don't know him, Heikki Kulta from Turun sanomat says.
What do others who know Kimi tell about the superstar's relationship with the media - and what does Kimi himself think? Read more. |
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Put the pedal to the metal,Kimi!!!! |
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Thu Jun 24, 2010 8:16 pm
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Thanks Claudie Good to read except the part he needs an operation  |
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Fri Jun 25, 2010 12:23 am
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| Thank you Claudie!!! Great reading and a little different from the usual. |
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Fri Jun 25, 2010 3:23 am
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Ice Soldier
Joined: 02 Jul 2008
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| Thank you so much! I had time to read it just now! |
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Fri Jun 25, 2010 10:14 am
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| whw0118 wrote: | F1 needs Kimi , says Whitmarsh
Autosport 2010.06.24
Of course ,
Kimi is the fastest driver in the world !! |
Thanks Wenny!
It's a great artickle. Who wrote it? |
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Fri Jun 25, 2010 11:15 am
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Ice Soldier
Joined: 09 Aug 2008
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Location: France
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thanks all ! |
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No matter how No matter where For Kimi always there ! |
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Sat Jun 26, 2010 8:51 am
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Kimster
Joined: 04 Aug 2008
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Location: Kyoto, Japan
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Thank you all!!
Great articles to read
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Sat Jun 26, 2010 9:27 am
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Kimster
Joined: 04 Aug 2008
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Location: Kyoto, Japan
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Hi Leila
I'm going to Rally Finland!
I had already reserved a flight to back to Japan on 7th August, but when I heard about that event, I changed my plan.I'll go the event!!!!
It's nice if we are able to meet there
It' still a great event even if Kimi and Seb don't come.
There are Mikko, Petter, Jari-Matti and many many stars.
Of course, Kaj, too!!
I'm sorry for your family 
Thank goodness, you survived.
My brother was also killed in a traffic accident.
Yeah, life is tough. Many unwanted things happen.
But there is always a light at the end of the tunnel. |
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Mon Jun 28, 2010 11:20 am
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| Leila wrote: | | Blackcat wrote: | Thanks for that Leila. Wouldn't that be fantastic if Seb and Kimi were to participate in Helsinki???
That weekend looks great fun already, just skimming through the list of confirmed drivers it looks brilliant. |
Yes, I really am looking forward to seeing them both in Helsinki, my city and I really, really hope it will happen!!!
About JJ, I don't know what to think. I hope he will be fine. Jail sentence would be really bad.... I am angry of drunk driving. I don't drink at all, but I don't drive eather, only my bike. I've lost my dad and my gradpa in an "car accident", not by a drunk, but by a man, who wanted to finish his life and ended up finishing the lives of four people, three were saved: the man's wife, another man in another can and me. I was eleven.  |
Leila, I'm sorry to hear about what happened to your family.
Be happy that you survived. All of us are tested in many different ways.
Remember that it is the down times in our lives that make us stronger and better persons.
When bad things happen, it is also a time when you will know who are there for you and you will realize all the good things that you DO have in your life. |
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Wed Jun 30, 2010 6:39 am
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Joined: 26 Oct 2008
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From Tania @ OF
On Autosprint of this week there is a short interview with Pirelli Motorsport Director Paul Hembery (http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/27062010/58/pirelli-seek-zero-advantage.html). He says that for the first testing of the new tyres they would like to have... Kimi as tester.
[...]"Well, in Turkey I spoke with a guy who just one year ago was racing for Ferrari... I'm joking, obviously. I don't know if Kimi is interested in doing the tester for us." |
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