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Andrea Stella who has worked with Räikkönen, Alonso and Michael Schumacher, compared them in formulasantander.com-web magazine's interview and in his comparison he mentioned Räikkönen at the end and thought a while about how to put his words:
- Kimi... I would say that Kimi is the best in certain circumstances, but only in certain. He is instinctive.
Stella was asked how the talkative Italian got along with the quiet Räikkönen. According to stories Räikkönen didn't want to talk with Stella during races.
- I have to correct this general opinion of Kimi. When a driver is in the car, he needs certain information that he can't get by himself from the car. It's better to say one word too much than too little. Of course when I said one word too much to Kimi, that he has to push harder and give it his all, he replied by saying that he is already pushing hard with all he has.
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Courtesy: Nicole
Andrea Stella who was Kimi Räikkönen's race engineer in Ferrari, got to cheer over the season's first Grand Prix -victory with Fernando Alonso on Sunday
Räikkönen saved Ferrari's victories when winning Spa in 2009. Now Alonso opened this season's account of victories in the 9th race.
Stella agrees to compare these two victories only as similar emotional states.
– With Kimi we won in 2009 although our car wasn't anywhere when it came to competitiveness. Now we have improved all the time and are competitively closer to the others. In that sense the victory in Belgium was much more unique, Stella assured to Turun Sanomat.
– Only thing similar in these victories was the equally big satisfaction that they brought us. I remember best Kimi's victory in 2007, in the season's last race in Brazil. The feeling can't get much better than that, Stella assured.
– In fact all victories that I have experienced with Michael Schumacher, Kimi and Fernando have been very good.
Is Ferrari and Alonso now back in the WC-battle?
– If you look at the latest races we have been there all the time. Hopefully this won't remain as one singular victory. Usually it goes so that if you are fast in Silverstone, then you are also fast on other tracks, Stella thinks.
The Italian engineer admitted that Red Bull's problems in the pitstop helped, but that they weren't the only reason to Alonso's victory.
– At that point we got to lead the race but our pace wasn't at least worse than Red Bull's was. The updates we brought to this race worked as we expected too also, Stella thought.
Turun Sanomat, Silverstone
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Courtesy: Nicole
