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Home » 2018 Azerbaijan GP: Kimi Raikkonen reaction and impressions after P2 in Baku

2018 Azerbaijan GP: Kimi Raikkonen reaction and impressions after P2 in Baku. Kimi's view at the end of the race.

Scuderia Ferrari Finnish driver Kimi Raikkonen has revealed he was lucky to finish Formula 1’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix after hitting the wall “at full speed” in the closing stages of the race. The Ferrari driver recovered from a first-lap tangle with Esteban Ocon to finish a crazy race second to Lewis Hamilton, but he thought he was going to have a high-speed accident coming onto the start/finish straight with three laps to go when he clipped the wall in the final kink on the lap.

“On the first lap after the restart on the little kink coming to the last part of the straight I hit the inside wall at full speed,” said Raikkonen – “I’m pretty lucky that the front wheel didn’t go. I was expecting to go off quite fast, but I was lucky.”

Kimi Raikkonen added that he had another near-miss before the race even started, when he “almost put it in the wall on the way to the grid”: “I had a lot of close moments. We were kind of a bit on the limit, it was not the easiest. It was not the most enjoyable – some laps very good and some laps I had to try not to hit the wall. The feeling was there but not consistently, so I thought ‘OK, I just try to go as fast as I can but a little bit safer’. Maybe today certain things worked in our directions but whatever happened in front, it’s self-made issues in many ways. The Red Bulls, look what they were going to do, I was pretty certain something was going to happen later when they got close to each other. We stayed out of trouble, in this kind of race – knowing what happened last year, it’s going to pay off.” – Kimi added, as reported by the British media.

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