Kimi visits Ferrari, McLaren pushing for Alonso’s release
December 8th, 2006
Kimi Raikonnen made his first public appearance with Ferrari on Thursday, joining the team for the second day of tests at Jerez. Although he is yet to be released by McLaren, Kimi took the opportunity to get to know the members of his new team, even sitting down for a chat with new team mate Felipe Massa.
Meanwhile, McLaren has been pushing for Fernando Alonso’s release from Renault, hoping that the Spaniard can join them for a drive at next week’s tests at Jerez. Kinda silly, if you ask me, given that they have been likewise holding on to Kimi (despite the visit to Ferrari) until the year’s end.
The way things stand at the moment, both drivers will be unable to drive for their new teams until next year’s mid-January tests at Valencia.
Also on Thursday, Lewis Hamilton set the fastest lap of testing with a time of 1:18.684. This marks the first time in testing that teams were able to lap faster than the day’s leading Ferrari, with five teams setting faster times than Massa’s best of 1:20.046.
Stay tuned for more as the teams continue to run at Jerez until the 15th of December.
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3 Comments Add your own
1. Art | December 9th, 2006 at 8:43 am
Let me be the first to say, Kimi will win the WDCin 2007.
2. rc | December 9th, 2006 at 10:34 pm
kimi with a good car
will be intersting to watch
next year
rc
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