From the Pulpit
Will Kimi win races for Ferrari in 2007? He will. And the world championship? Probably that, too, says F1 Racing's editor in chief Matt Bishop. Why? And how? No one knows, least of all Kimi...
As we filed into the Monza paddock on Thursday 13 September 2001, we did so without the spring in our steps that arriving at that great racetrack usually engenders. But that was hardly surprising: what we had all seen on our television screens just two days before made feeling optimistic about anything impossible.
It was on this afternoon, and against this backdrop, that McLaren announced the signing of Kimi Raikkonen. And, although whooping for joy was clearly out of the question, Ron Dennis made no secret of his deep pleasure at having scooped the young Finn from Peter Sauber's protective embrace.
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