Kimi Raikkonen...and his luck

[tetopelis]

wow..i have to say...2 races in a row and i'm really getting very impressed with this guy.i tought last year really marked him out, but he is showing me more this year. directly back on the pace given a competative car. miles ahead of his teammate in regards to pace. and maximising the excellent opurtunity of a new competative car given to him.
the best part of all..2 races so far and he has been the only guy this season to make schumi sweat and really work for the win.
but sadly if one thing which sometimes turns on him its his luck...i'm pretty confident that if his rear wing didn't fail on his car..he most probably have been 2nd..keeping the real close fight with schumi..and who knows maybe have even won this race..he and his car seemed to have had the pace..it was fast when he wanted it to be..setting the fastest lap of the race if i'm not mistaken..and seemed to have been the only fella to have carwed pass alonso with ease when all others was finding it hard to beat the renaults traction..so i wouldn't have been surprised.
wat i was surprised with is his rear wing elemnt just flying out like tat. so far the only failure that the MP4-19B has gotten..anyone with any reasoning on how this might have happened or wat might have caused it?

but all said i seriously understand how raikkonen feels, we all saw how livid he was after the whole incident. who wouldn't be when he knew he had all the chance in the world to get the win...and something like that happens..why can't schumi ever get this kinda luck for a change

[sharkie17]

..why can't schumi ever get this kinda luck for a change

umm... Monaco?

[bernard]

Oh, yeah, Monaco...
What an unlucky man that schumacher. He hasn't had a technical failure in exactly three years (last was in hockenheim three years ago). That's 50 races without technical failure. Kimi has in the same time had twenty technical failures.
Just to put things into perspective.

[Reca]

3 failure vs 0 is bad luck, 20 vs 0 isn’t luck, it’s the difference in the quality of work of the teams.
Consider last year, many said Kimi lost the WDC because of the unlucky DNF at Nurburgring, truth is that last year Kimi had only 1 mechanical DNF vs the 4 or 5 of DC, so last year Kimi was lucky (and received a bit of help in parc fermè...), given the level of reliability of the McLaren, 5 or 6 failures over 32 starts, the year before the lucky one was DC. Ferrari in 2003 had 1 failure (the suspension in Hungary), it happened to RB so in a certain sense MS was lucky to not suffer from it, but still it’s 1 over 32 starts. MS simply is enjoying a better work from Ferrari team, in ’96 the Ferrari reliability level was quite low and also MS had some unlucky moments (do you remember the white smoke during the Magny Cours warm up lap when he was in pole ?) and I prefers not to think about the years before when the typical excuse for the 156th engine failure was “it’s not a design problem, it was because of a 10 cent worth part that failed”. Since then Ferrari worked on reliability first (MS said something like “give me a car that can reach the end and I will put it on the podium”) and on performance then, and now they are enjoying years of good work, it’s not solely a gift from Heaven.

[bernard]

Reca, you a Ferrari fan?

[sharkie17]

Reca, you a Ferrari fan?

lol.. i think he is just pointing out the obvious.

and like someone said (i think he won the Tour De France six times), when youre prepared, luck just seems to fall your way.