In F1 you can go from hero to zero very quickly - Raikkonen
Kimi Raikkonen, the Finnish Scuderia Ferrari driver, feels confident towards the upcoming Canadian Grand Prix. Raikkonen, who had a disappointing race at Monaco, hopes to snatch another victory for the Italian Team and is still confident that he can win the Championship.
Kimi Raikkonen "I have never driven the Ferrari in Montreal or in Indianapolis, so I can not say how the car goes in those circuits. In any case the team has had good results in both places. That is very encouraging. We can expect interesting races.
One thing is for sure. McLaren will not be one minute ahead of us, like they were in Monaco. The nature of Montreal is so different compared to Monaco, although we speak about two street circuits.
Monaco is just a distant memory. Now everything is charged for Canada."
The Finn is 15 points behind the McLaren duo, Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton, in the Championship standings, but is still confident of his chances to win the Championship.
He said: "I'm now fourth in the championship and 15 points behind the leaders. The gap is not that big and my position is not that miserable, not at all. A couple of good races for us and a couple of bad ones for the competitors and the whole situation would look totally different.
Like team boss Mr. Todt said, if we would be 15 points behind and it would be only two races to go, my fight for the championship would be over. But it is still 12 races to go, so 15 points' gap is not that big.
The last two results have not been good for me. However I feel I am still very much in with a chance of fighting for the championship. I will do my best to finish and win as many races as possible and we will see at the end of the year where we end up in the championship."
After the first race of the season, the Australian Grand Prix, the fans and media were over the moon with the performance of Raikkonen, as he took victory at Melbourne. After 2 bad races in Spain and Monaco, it appears that the Ferrari fans and the media turned against Kimi. But the Finn is not to worried about the bad comments he received: "In Formula One you go from hero to zero very quickly, that's the nature of the sport."
