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헤이키 첫 우승

어제밤 9시부터 10시40분경까지 경기였지만, 이제와서 글을 올리는 이유는.
나 못봤거든...ㅜ.ㅜ
어젯밤 10시40분 쫌 넘어서 들어왔다. 흑흑흑
아 제기랄.
사실 퀄리파잉도 실시간으로 봐놓고서 레이스를 못본이유는,
약속시간에 나는 20분, 상대방은 50분 지각해서..;ㅅ;
그래서 동영상이 뜨기만을 기다리는중. ㅜ..ㅜ
퀄리파잉에서 루이가 1등, 헤이키가 2등할때만해도
헤이키가 포디엄에만 올라가면 다행이라 생각했거늘;;
늘 운이 없던 헤이키에게 이번만큼은 운이 아주아주 많이 따라준듯;
어쨌든 헤이키의 첫우승이니 축하축하.
론데이스 아자씨의 축하멘트는
"Welcome to the world of winning, the first of many."
였다는..ㅎㅅㅎ 나도 first of many이 되기를 바람!
이걸 신호탄으로 앞으로 포디엄에서 자주 보기를..
참, 이번 우승으로 헤이키는 F1 역사상 우승기록을 가진 100번째 드라이버가 되었다고한다.
99번째는 누구일까, 쿠비짜?

축하기념으로 헤이키의 안습사진을 올려본다.
헤이키의 안습장면에 눈물흘리는 키미. 모터스포츠닷컴은 안티임에 틀림없다. ㅋㅋ
샴페인 따자마자 병나발부는 두 핀란드인. 핀란드 전통이야?
캐안습헤이키...ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
부자상봉?? 이건 안습 론아저씨;
요염한 헤이키


FIA post-race press conference - Hungary

1st Heikki Kovalainen (McLaren), 1h37m27.067s;
2nd Timo Glock (Toyota), 1h37m38.128s;
3rd Kimi Raikkonen (Ferrari), 1h37m43.923s.

Q: Heikki, it has been a long road but your first win in Formula One. Describe your feelings as you crossed the line.
Heikki Kovalainen: Yeah, of course I was very happy. Like you mentioned there have been various incidents this year and we have been in the position after Saturday quite a few times to fight for the victory, but always something has gone wrong and it hasn’t functioned perfectly. Today obviously I knew Massa and Lewis were both very fast at the beginning of the race but half way through the race I felt it was starting to work for me a little bit better and then at the end I just tried to put pressure on Massa and hoped something would happen and obviously it looked like he had a mechanical failure, so it all worked fine for me today and I am very, very happy about it. All the hard work that the whole team has put in the last few months, through difficult times, we just kept pushing and it is very respectable and I am very, very glad to score my first victory.

Q: The car looked particularly good in the last stint on the softer tyres. How quick was the car relative to Felipe do you think?
HK: It is difficult to say what he was doing. I was catching him quite a big chunk every lap and the target was to try and put pressure on him and take all the power from his engine and everything I could do to put pressure on him. Like you said, my car felt particularly good on the last stint. The first two stints I was a little bit cautious. Earlier this year I have had some troubles with the tyre degradation and I was worried if I crossed that edge again I might start to struggle. I just kept my own pace and then in the last stint it all worked fine for me.

Q: In the last few laps you knew you were leading and the Finnish anthem was played for you this time on the podium.
HK: It is fantastic. It is a great moment. Of course it is a moment I have been targeting for many, many years now since I started to get an idea about the possibility of becoming an F1 driver. I started to work hard and improve my fitness. I have spent a lot of time to achieve this goal, so to finally achieve it, is very pleasing. Hopefully this is the first of many. At the moment we just need to keep the concentration, have a little break and try to maximise this break and then go to the next round and try to repeat it.

Q: Heikki, where do you think the balance of power now lies?
KR: I think it is still very, very close and it is very difficult to draw any conclusions who is ahead. It just depends whoever nails it on the day. It is so sensitive at the moment that if you don’t get the set-up perfect and if you don’t get the tyres feeling perfect and if you don’t get your driving perfect there are going to be three or four guys ahead of you straight away. I think it is quite interesting. I think it is really spectacular for all the fans. For us it puts a lot of pressure on everybody to maximise everything but it should be a very interesting end of the season with all the teams pushing very hard to see who comes out on top at the end.

PRESS CONFERENCE

Q: Heikki, what’s it like winning your first grand prix?
HK: It feels pretty good. I could do it again. It is not so bad. Of course I feel a little bit sorry for Felipe and for Lewis. They both drove a great race but I know how it feels what happened to them today. I had similar moments this year quite a few times. But I tried to put pressure, especially in the last stint, on Felipe, trying to push him and maybe something would happen, you never know. When I saw the car on fire in the main straight with big smoke I thought it must be Felipe but it is hard to believe. After that of course there was no big rush anymore. With three laps to go it was just a case of bringing it home. In the end it is a great moment for myself and I am very happy. It is a very happy moment for our team and I am looking forward to the rest of the season. We are heading in the right direction and it is just a case now of keep pushing even through this brake a little bit and then try again next time.

Q: What were your emotions during the race? They must have been extraordinary.
HK: Yeah, but obviously for myself it wasn’t quite like that. I just tried to keep it tidy and not make any mistakes and also the first two stints especially with the hard tyre I just tried to look after those tyres. Earlier this year there were quite a few times when I thought the tyres were dropping off as I was a little bit too hard on them, so I tried not to go too much. I just tried to go with the pace that I felt was available at that moment and just tried to increase it when I could. Then with the soft tyre at the end it felt particularly good and I felt confident to push and the tyre wasn’t dropping off. Then when I tried to put pressure on Felipe I was catching him and in the end it was over.

Q: What about the start?
HK: Yeah, I felt that it was a little bit slippery on my side and straight away I saw that Lewis got a little jump on me and was a bit more ahead and then I saw Felipe coming and there was nothing I could do. I just sat back and saw that the guys behind me had also not got such a good start, so I was on my own already after just 200 metres. I was just trying to follow them into the first corner as it was quite possible something was going to happen as they were quite close to each other and they were locking wheels and everything. But they drove fine and after that it was quite a long lonely race for myself. I had a little problem with traffic in the middle of the race. There were quite a few lapped cars and it is very difficult to get close enough here to indicate to them that we are behind and I had a little chat on the radio to get the blue flags out and those guys had to back off from quite a long distance. But it is a problem with this circuit to get close enough and I lost quite a few seconds there but in the end it didn’t matter too much.

QUESTIONS FROM THE FLOOR

Q: (Heikki Kulta – Turun Sanomat) Heikki, they say that the first victory makes a driver stronger. Do you think that will happen to you also?
HK: It certainly won’t make me any weaker! It certainly doesn’t do any harm. Of course, this is something that we’ve been trying to do earlier this year. It could have happened in many other races, there was always an opportunity but it didn’t happen. We haven’t lost concentration, we’ve kept the full motivation all the time and trying to improve and little by little get closer and today we had a little bit of luck on our side but certainly it won’t do any harm for anyone in our team and not for myself either.

Q: (Istvan Simon – Auto Magazine) To all three of you, did this extreme heat disturb your performance on the track today?
HK: For myself, it didn’t disturb, but it’s a challenge all the time. It’s a tough race, for sure, but I don’t feel it was limiting or slowing me down at all. I felt I was well-prepared for this one, no problem.
TG: The heat for me was no problem either. I felt again a bit the problem I had in Jerez with my stomach, where I think I had some wrong food at the test and when I had drunk quite a lot throughout the race, I had problems again with my stomach. I was not feeling perfect after the race but the heat wasn’t the biggest problem.
KR: It was OK. It’s harder for the cars, for everybody, but it was no problem.

Q: (Juha Päätalo – Financial Times Deutschland) Heikki, can you just describe your emotions and thoughts in the last three laps of the race? First realising you are P1, then bringing the victory home and then talking to the team on the radio?
HK: Well, of course in the last three laps there are not too many emotions, just to bring it home. Obviously at that point I had no need any more - that was the lap that I saw Felipe blow up, that was the last time I pushed, and then after that I just started to save the engine and save everything and just bring it home. Of course, I’m very, very happy. I know how hard we’ve worked and how hard the team has worked to bring forward upgrades for our car and we made some significant improvements in the last few months. The last few races have been very strong, not necessarily the results on my side but Lewis has been strong and the car has been performing strongly. Talking to the team was a happy moment, mainly because everyone has worked really hard. I feel satisfied, of course, for myself to have achieved this result and regardless of circumstances in Formula One you don’t have any style points; it’s ten points, end of story. It’s just a very happy moment and now I’m going to go for a little break and try to become better through this little break.

Q: (Erkki Mustakari – STT) Heikki, the next race will be in three weeks. That gives you two and a half weeks to celebrate. How are you going to celebrate your first Formula One win?
HK: Any ideas, Kimi?
KR: I will take him out.
HK: I haven’t seen my family… I haven’t actually been in my real home in north Finland for a long time. I will go there at the end of next week, I think. I will celebrate the day with my people in Suomussalmi village where I’m from. I have a little karting race organised on Saturday. It’s a tradition. It has already taken place for the last five or six years and I think now it will be a very special event, having won this race. It’s nice to go and see my people there. Perhaps we celebrate there a little bit with the Suomussalmi people and with my family but then it’s back to business and even trying to get something out of the break. I think we are going to do some fitness programme to push the fitness level up, to get strong, to get better, and also spend a bit of time in Woking, talking to the engineers and preparing for the next race. It doesn’t change my world completely upside down, even if there was a two month break now. I’m happy about it but this is just part of the goal. Now the next goal is to repeat this and then after that to do it again, so just need to keep up the concentration all the time.

Q: (Jérome Bourret – L’Equipe) Heikki, what are the improvements you have made since last year and which helped you to win today?
HK: I think the biggest improvement is that I have more grip in my car now compared to last year, and the whole package is just more competitive. I think as a driver I’m certainly a better driver compared to last year. I have improved my driving technique. I have improved the whole package. The engineers are giving me feedback and I’m fitter compared to last year as well. I think there is a lot more to come. I think there is still a lot of work to be done and the next target has to be to do all these results consistently and without anyone blowing away. We just go step by step. There’s no particular area that I want to improve, we just try to work on every area, little-by-little, not to overshoot any area, not to get any backfires.


Heikki Kovalainen
"There have been races this year where I’ve been in a position to challenge for victory but had something go wrong for me. Halfway through this race, things started working for me and I started pushing Felipe hard - and it worked. I feel sorry for Felipe because he drove a great race, but my car felt good and I knew I could push for the victory. This is a great moment for me, something I’ve been targeting for many years. Hopefully, this victory will be the first of many."

Lewis Hamilton
"Congratulations to Heikki for his first and very well deserved grand prix win. The race could have been better for me. My start was okay, but Felipe’s was better and he managed to overtake me.
I managed to maintain the gap during the first stint and felt comfortable in the second stint because I was matching his times but was going to be running longer to the final stops. I feel I could have had a go at passing him, but the damaged tyre halted my progress. I don’t yet know what happened. But at least I scored four points and maintained my lead in the championship, so this result is not too bad for me."

Ron Dennis
"One of the oldest motor racing phrases ever coined is: ‘To finish first, first you have to finish.’ Hackneyed it may be, but it's true nonetheless. Even so, you have to feel sorry for Felipe, who did a very good job. But Heikki drove superbly, scoring his first grand prix victory in fine style and converting his excellent qualifying pace, which has been apparent all season, into a thoroughly well deserved win."
"Lewis’s race was compromised by his losing the lead at the start; but we fuelled him long for the second stint and therefore believed he was well placed to leapfrog Felipe in his final pitstop. Sadly for him, though, it wasn’t to be: damage to his front-left tyre cost him that victory chance. However, from Lewis’s perspective, as bad days go, it could have been a lot worse. But today was Heikki’s day, and a very good day it was, and everyone at Vodafone McLaren Mercedes is absolutely delighted for him."

Norbert Haug
"I’m sorry for Felipe and Ferrari. Lewis had bad luck with the tyre, Felipe with the engine. Heikki’s first win is sensational and he deserves it. We are obviously successful with our Finns; first Mika, then Kimi and now Heikki. Without the damaged tyre, Lewis also had a chance of victory; until then his race went according to plan and his strategy with a later second stop could have put him ahead of Felipe. Congratulations to Timo and Toyota on their second place - today Timo kept the world champion behind him. The podium showed again that the fight for the World Championship will remain very exciting. During the so-called summer break, we will continue to work hard to be well prepared for the next race on Valencia's street circuit which will be new for everybody."

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