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This article first appeared in GP Racing magazine.
GP Racing is trying not to panic. We're minutes away from speaking to Kimi Raikkonen and the doors to the Monza 'Media Meeting Area' are seemingly locked. "It's fine," we think, clearly exasperated, "he's only notoriously difficult to interview and hates to be dragged away from the parts of Formula 1 he actually enjoys..."
A text to the FIA's media delegate, another to Will Ponissi (Alfa Romeo's press attache), a few moments of struggling to banish our unhelpful inner monologue, and we're saved! A circuit press officer arrives - and reveals the locked door isn't the right one, and the correct one just needs a good shove. Mercifully, she holds back her thoughts on our obvious inadequacy...
There's no time to focus on the embarrassment - we're in, and Kimi and Will are not far behind. We scramble to our seat at a large table with three chairs and notice a flash of red to our left. It turns out to be Sebastian Vettel speaking to another journalist.
