Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Heikki's Kulta Column: The heat is on


Whereas home in Finland people are sweating in the heat, in Germany again one has to keep the heat on both in Nürburgring's media center during the working day as well as in the hotel room during the night.

It was more chilly in the WRC-battle too. Sebastian Vettel's crushing lead is of a class that he can't practically lose it other than if he gets badly injured.

It's hard to think who would be the biggest threat to the champion. They are putting Fernando Alonso in the role although Mark Webber is ahead of him. As cars both Red Bull and Ferrari seem to be very close at the moment.

In a Finnish matter of speaking Bild-magazine brought at least some kind of warmth to the F1-circle after awakening the talks about Kimi Räikkönen's possible comeback to F1 as Red Bull's driver.

The team objected immediately to the speculations and Christian Horner has said more than once that Räikkönen hasn't even given any signs of his possible will to come back.

Knowing Räikkönen he hasn't earlier either given any signs of which direction he is going to. He has gone according to what he has been offered and what has interested him.

My good friend, reporter Michael Schmidt from the German Auto, Motor und Sport -magazine, has never greeted me normally when we meet, instead he always asks "Where is Kimi?". He has done this for the last one and a half year.

We chatted about Räikkönen on Friday. Schmidt assured that he isn't 'greeting' just in a joking way.

– Kimi's comeback would be a huge thing for this sport. We have now seen how Michael Schumacher's comeback has gone. Kimi is much younger. It would be exciting to see how he would pull it off, Schmidt reminded.

Turun Sanomat, Nürburgring

HEIKKI KULTA

Courtesy: Nicole

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