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F1 News & Discussions => F1 Drivers => Topic started by: Scott on November 10, 2012, 10:57:28 AM
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After all the attention his recent race radio comments made while he went on to victory, he has put an exclamation on it and had 500 T-Shirts made up with the radio message, signed and given to all the team members at Lotus.
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:DD :DD :DD Love it, the pit radio from Kimi in Abu Dhabi has changed my opinion on him. I want one of those t-shirts.
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:DD :DD Love one of them T-shirts myself, XXL please!
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I'd like one myself, and I know that my daughter would love one. I'll bet Lotus could make major coin selling them.
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I'll take one in medium please!!! :good:
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I'll take one in medium please!!! :good:
Go on, spit it out... :good: :good:
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An XL please.. :good: :good:
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Plain L please. I'd buy one in a shot. Fantastic.
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I thought that it was unprofessional, and a poor example to up and coming younger drivers in other formulae. He could say that behind closed doors, and I'd have no problem, but it's not the sort of thing that he should be saying on the radio in my opinion.
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Oh come on Irisado, Kimi IS a professional, he was just showing that he IS human too, I've never been a fan of his but I've never doubted his driving ability. He never needed to be told to work his tyres behind the S/C, he knew he had to, unlike some other drivers who need to be stroked all the time.
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I'll take one in medium please!!! :good:
Go on, spit it out... :good: :good:
:DD :DD :DD ;)
I will when I'm finished! Got a ways to go yet.
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Kimi has more than class, he's an individual too.
Imagine if everyone was nice all the time. Ugh!
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I thought that it was unprofessional, and a poor example to up and coming younger drivers in other formulae. He could say that behind closed doors, and I'd have no problem, but it's not the sort of thing that he should be saying on the radio in my opinion.
The race is 90 minutes long, the radio is on the whole time.
It's not really meant for public consumption either. It was the FIA that chose for us to hear that, not Kimi.
It was a GREAT example for up and coming drivers. The man in the car should be in charge of the car, not some busy body on the pit wall who wishes to race F1 cars.
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Oh come on Irisado, Kimi IS a professional, he was just showing that he IS human too, I've never been a fan of his but I've never doubted his driving ability. He never needed to be told to work his tyres behind the S/C, he knew he had to, unlike some other drivers who need to be stroked all the time.
I'm a professional, and I can't say that sort of stuff in a public domain when I'm teaching or presenting my research. I can say it, should I feel the need, out of the public domain. I'm not questioning that he's a professional racing driving, but I am saying that his comments were unprofessional.
The race is 90 minutes long, the radio is on the whole time.
It's not really meant for public consumption either. It was the FIA that chose for us to hear that, not Kimi.
It was a GREAT example for up and coming drivers. The man in the car should be in charge of the car, not some busy body on the pit wall who wishes to race F1 cars.
He still knows that there is potential for the message to be broadcast.
You can be in charge of the car without making derogatory comments about the role of the team and engineer. He could have said something along the lines of 'okay, but I'll radio you if I need to know anything else' or words to that effect. It conveys the same message without being so officious.
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Kimi never swore on the pit radio so I can't see what the problem is.
I was a professional too before I retired.
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Glad they don't talk like jet pilots 'Roger that, Race Control'. Na, I'm definitely on the side of let them talk however they like. More fun. Perhaps it would be more professional of the Lotus engineers to just be quiet, after all, he knows what he's doing. ;)
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Kimi never swore on the pit radio so I can't see what the problem is.
I was a professional too before I retired.
The problem is thus:
In your former capacity as a professional would you say, in a public setting, to colleagues 'go away and leave me alone'? I couldn't, and wouldn't, even though I might be thinking it in cases, because it's not professional behaviour. That, for me, is the problem.
If you don't agree, that's fair enough.
Edit: This might be coming across as being too confrontational on my part, in which case I apologise because it's not supposed to be. I'm just not a fan of this sort of behaviour by drivers.
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Irisada, no apologies are needed on here because we don't get personal, we are all entitled to our own opinions thank heavens.
As a matter of fact I said the same thing to my boss on the railway, I was fixing a fault on the track and he poked his nose in.
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Here is two closely working people, who spent much of their time with each other, trying to get the best out of the car, the communication and way of it will be depended upon entirely to these individual how they interact.
I am sure Kimi makes such comments every other time, and his working environment probably gives him this freedom to be so..
Have you not ever had such moments with your best of buddies, who also your colleagues?
Like Kimi his radio transmissions are unique..