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F1 News & Discussions => F1 Drivers => Topic started by: cosworth151 on September 07, 2018, 03:24:58 PM
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There is an on line petition that Ferrari should keep Kimi for the 2019 F1 season. It was up over 27,000 when I signed it.
https://www.change.org/p/maurizio-arrivabene-ferrari-should-keep-kimi-raikkonen-for-another-year
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Petitions are good, boycotts are better.
No more Shell gasoline, no more Ray-Ban sunglasses, shipping done with FedEx not UPS... I'm already not buying a Ferrari...
(Except I don't really think Ferrari is wrong; as much as I want to see Kimi in F1, I think LeClerc is a smarter risk)
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Sorry won't be signing it, not because I don't believe in Kimi, I just don't see every thing as crowd choice.
I don't really put any money in Ferraris pocket so it just feels wrong to try to tell em how to run their team.
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Sorry won't be signing it, not because I don't believe in Kimi, I just don't see every thing as crowd choice.
I don't really put any money in Ferraris pocket so it just feels wrong to try to tell em how to run their team.
The Toronto Maple Leafs, a professional hockey team which has not won a championship since 1967 (the longest drought in NHL history) spent years being run by the media/fans. The people who ran the team would react to whatever the fans wanted, which naturally lead to the team being a poorly formed mess. The most popular players aren't always the best players, and definitely not a great fit to create a winning team.
A few years ago they hired a former player named Brendan Shanahan. He put into place the 'Shana-plan', and said he's going to run the team to win, and it's going to take time, so everyone sit down, shut up and wait a couple years while it gets sorted out.
He hired a GM (Lou Lamoriello*) widely reviled for ruining hockey in the 1990s by adopting a style that emphasized stingy defense and opportunistic scoring. They made the playoffs (a signal of a successful season in the NHL, as the players aren't paid for playoff hockey, and ticket prices double... so a single playoff game can net a team as much money as 20 regular season games)
He then replaced Lamoriello (who at age 74 became president of another team) with Kyle Dubos, who at 32 is younger than some of his hockey players. He puts an emphasis on statistics instead of 'old school' player scouting, when the fans expected Mark Hunter to become the GM, and is known as the best of 'old school' player scouting.
*Fun fact about Lamoriello: he has partial ownership of the group that owns the New Jersey Devils NHL team, which is part of the same organisation that owns the New York Yankees, so he has won the NHL Stanley Cup and the MLB World Series
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Getting close to 50k now.
I spent a hundred bucks or so at the Ferrari store a couple of years ago, so I feel comfortable chucking my opinion into the wastebin. But it’s a done deal. Kimi will be retiring. I hope he takes a top step before the season is out. I doubt Leclerc will for at least a couple of years.
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There's talk of surprising news regarding Kimi so maybe he isn't about to hang up his helmet just yet. Fingers crossed. I dislike this current trend in F1 about drivers getting younger. Kimi is the elder statesman but still one of the better drivers.
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There's talk of surprising news regarding Kimi so maybe he isn't about to hang up his helmet just yet. Fingers crossed. I dislike this current trend in F1 about drivers getting younger. Kimi is the elder statesman but still one of the better drivers.
Couldn't agree more Luke
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I think the petition isn't aimed so much at Ferrari as it is at the sponsors, and I do use Shell, UPS and such.
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I once thought about buying some Finnish Vodka so I signed the
petition....keep Kimi
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I don't see a petition achieving anything. Ferrari will decide what it wants to decide, in its own sweet time. (With this much delay, I'm believing increasingly that Kimi will keep the seat for 2019, but that may just be down to mild preference rather than anything concrete).
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I don't see a petition achieving anything. Ferrari will decide what it wants to decide, in its own sweet time. (With this much delay, I'm believing increasingly that Kimi will keep the seat for 2019, but that may just be down to mild preference rather than anything concrete).
It helped Star Trek.....at least for one season and one more
Kimi season and I'll be happy. But realistically Ferrari won't even
look at it
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I am a Kimi fan...not a Ferrari or Sauber or Mclaren or whomever makes the car fan. As long as he is given a car he can drive, he will drive the wheels off it. Time for a change...let's see what he can do with Renault power.
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I am a Kimi fan...not a Ferrari or Sauber or Mclaren or whomever makes the car fan. As long as he is given a car he can drive, he will drive the wheels off it. Time for a change...let's see what he can do with Renault power.
He got his last win with Renault power...
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Sauber uses Ferrari engines.
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I am a Kimi fan...not a Ferrari or Sauber or Mclaren or whomever makes the car fan. As long as he is given a car he can drive, he will drive the wheels off it. Time for a change...let's see what he can do with Renault power.
I was a Fisi fan so I followed him from team to team. He was
a little like Kimi when he was at Renault,he wasn't allowed to
win unless HRH had problems. When Fisi left F1 I switched to Kimi.
I don't see any new drivers I follow once Kimi calls it quits
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Ricciardo is fun to watch...he’s got my attention.