Romain Grosjean says everything is going well with Kimi Raikkonen – Formula 1 news
Lotus driver Romain Grosjean is very delighted that he has a very good relationship with his teammate, Kimi Raikkonen who had won 2007 Formula 1 world championship.
Grosjean will make his comeback in F1 after 2009 when he was teamed up with the two-time world drivers’ champion, Fernando Alonso during his short spell in the team, known as Renault at that time.
Grosjean stated that everything is going quite well with Raikkonen after they met at the factory in December last year and then in February during the tests. Furthermore, he said that the plan is to work together in the team to make the best possible efforts
for the 2012 F1 season.
“He is still very good. He was F1 world champion in 2007 and he returns this year with Lotus. I hope we will do very good things this season. Is he also a competitor? There are 24 drivers on the grid, you have to beat 23 of them (laughs). Anyone who participates
in a competition wants to win. An athlete who says he wants to go the Olympic games to be fifth is lying. Everybody wants to win. When you’re in the car, the idea is to beat everyone else,” said Grosjean.
The Frenchman will be test driving the car during the last two days of the second Formula 1 pre-season test held at Circuit de Catalunya, Barcelona before the first Grand Prix of the forthcoming season in Australia.
However, due to the chassis problem, he could not be able to take part in the last year’s pre-season test at Barcelona.
After the first test at the Jerez circuit in Spain, Grosjean expressed that he had no issues and said that he felt good in the new Lotus E20 during the test.
James Allison, the technical director of Lotus said that both Raikkonen and Grosjean had been quite impressed by the performance of the new car during the test and the comments from the team drivers had been prove out to be quite encouraging for me.
Furthermore, he said that the last couple of seasons had been not encouraging for the team but this year the warm remarks of the drivers about the car had created a positive feel.
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