for Ferrari in Formula One.
– He joined Ferrari in 2007, becoming the highest-paid
driver with a salary of $51 million.
– His move to Ferrari saw him win
his first Formula One championship,
beating McLaren drivers Lewis Hamilton
and Fernando Alonso by just one point.
– He’s Kimi Raikkonen and here are his
top ten rules for success.
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– [Interviewer] Was there ever a time when you started to
doubt your ability, can I still do this?
– No, because I probably gone through,
quite a few times, the same story.
And obviously you always think,
“How can I get this sorted out?”
And you try and try many things.
When I get the car for my liking
I can drive it pretty well and fast
so for myself, I want to make sure that
it stays like that and we can do it every single time
when I drive out of the box.
– [Announcer] As out onto the podium comes the race winner,
Kimi Raikkonen takes the top step
for the first time in his Formula One career.
– [Commentator] Kimi Raikkonen comfortably
leads the world championship then, with 16 points.
– [Announcer] Well, but it was a little hard to tell
whether the new rules had played a part here.
It was a perfect race, really.
A perfect day for Kimi Raikkonen.
We started with a 21-year old pole-sitter,
we finished with a 23-year old winning the race.
– It’s all about the people,
I mean, it’s all about all the people.
The guys who you never see on the circuits or TV,
anywhere, at the factory or on the seat end,
but we need all of those.
And those that we have, we have a very strong team boss now
to run the whole team and putting things in order.
And like I said, think it’s all the people
all working well as one team for Ferrari.
And that’s a big key for the problems that we had.
(Finnish national anthem playing)
(speaking in a foreign language)
(cheering and applauding) (noisemakers tooting)
There was always different options
and then we decided to look at, to make this option.
So I mean, of course I work with them three years
so I know the people and we had a lot of relationship.
So in that way, of course, when you change something
it’s always a bit funny in beginning
but it’s not the first time
and it’s not the end of the world.
– [Announcer] Prince Albert,
the crowd sensing the trophies there.
See Kimi Raikkonen.
What a great moment.
Enzo Ferrari used to say,
“A win at Monaco is worth half a world championship.”
I think Kimi Raikkonen would settle for halving.
What a championship we have unfolding in front of us.
Eight races in the next 11 weeks.
It’s going to be a decisive phase of the championship
and this man is arriving in it in spectacular form.
And right now got to do (crowd cheering)
something about that rear tire wear, haven’t they?
This is not the toughest of the racetracks for that
but certainly they’ve got a deficit there to McLaren.
So a big thanks to Jenson Button
for joining us in the commentary box today.
We’ll see him racing at Villeneuve in a week’s time.
Kimi Raikkonen had 100 diamonds put into his helmet
by the Steinmetz jewelers this weekend.
He didn’t need them, though, to sparkle
around the streets of Monte Carlo.
– Kimi, you have so many fans out there.
Why do you think that is? (gentle orchestral music)
What is it about you that has caught
the imagination of the general public?
– I have no idea.
I’m not here to try to please people
or do it for somebody else.
I do it for myself and I do the things
how I feel is the best for me.
You’re never going to please everybody
and that’s not by job, you know.
My job is to do well in the racing
and I’m fortunate to have so many good fans.
(Finnish national anthem playing)
(car engine roaring)
Basically, if you become the F1 driver
or any top race driver,
you need to do quite a lot of fitness
because it’s part of the life now and you get used to it
and then you just feel better afterwards
And okay, maybe on the time when you’re doing something
in a gym is not the most nice feeling sometimes
but afterwards, you see, it’s very nice.
(Finnish national anthem playing)
I always enjoy different things with engine, motocross.
And I actually started on that,
then I started to do a bit better
and I still didn’t believe
that I would ever to make it to Formula One
because we didn’t have the money
and I just thought that I’d do the go-karts
as long as possible and then do something else.
(cheering and applauding) (noisemakers tooting)
(Finnish national anthem playing)
If you try to be something that you are not,
then it’s not going to work for long very well.
I mean, I don’t think you will enjoy your life
if you just try to make other people happy
and not do what you feel is the right thing for yourselves.
(Finnish national anthem playing)
We hope to do well and of course I hope to do better
than last year on the times
and to win more races
and a bit more higher up, five-foot champ is,
but that’s how I am.
But is it going to happen?
There’s no promises on that
but we hope we can achieve those results.
We will work for those, but we have to first see
that the car is good once we start running it,
and I believe it should be.
So we’ll try to win races and go from there.
Try to do the best that we can
and hopefully win much more races this time around.
– [Announcer] It’s time for Kimi Raikkonen
to celebrate his World Championship win,
and what better way to do it
than to be on the top step of the dais.
(Finnish national anthem playing)
– I never care, really, what people think.
If I don’t finish the next race they think
that I’m as bad that race.
So I do my things and if I’m happy
with what I’m doing that’s the main thing.
And I really don’t care if people are thinking differently
of me now than they thought three hours ago.
So makes no difference.
(Finnish national anthem playing)
(energetic rock music)
(laughing)
(mower engines roaring)
– [Announcer] The peace and quiet of the countryside
about to be shattered.
It’s lights out, and away we mow!
Brundle gets a jump start.
The stewards need to look into that,
but it’s Brundle racing away down the hill
with Raikkonen in hot pursuit.
Herbert and then Davidson bringing up the rear
as we head into the first turn.
On the inside goes Raikkonen, they almost touch.
Brundle forced wide and he loses a place.
Not one, but two as Herbert now
in hot pursuit down the hill.
As we get to the top of the hill
once more he’s going wide, Brundle, wide.
And he spins.
– [Racer] (laughs) oh no.
– [Announcer] Brundle, out of this race as Kimi Raikkonen,
a cut above the rest, shows them how it’s done.
(energetic electronic music)
And they touch.
Herbert, off into the long grass.
– [Racer] I’m off again.
(laughing)
And we’re fighting Kimi, sure.
– [Announcer] But nobody can stop The Flying Finn today.
It’s Raikkonen, he’s mowed down the opposition.
Kimi wins the Lawnmower GP.
– [Racer] How’d you go so far so quick?
– [Kimi] I don’t know.
– You’ve got one of these at home.
– No, I don’t. – “No, I don’t.” (laughs)
– He knew the track though.
– [Racer] Maybe so.
– This isn’t easy, look.
– Okay guys, we got one last chance here.
Straight to the edit and we can Photoshop this
and we can change this.
– Maybe I had a better car.
– What do you mean, “maybe”? – I think he’s right, yeah.
– [Announcer] The race winner, Kimi Raikkonen.
Kimi Raikkonen, it’s his seventh podium finish
of the season, but the first podium, let alone victory,
this is his first podium in six Grand Prix.
And it’s the first podium for the team.
Here, the Enstone team, whether you call it Lotus, Reno.
Time for the champagne shower.
Though it’s not champagne in this country, of course.
So the rosewater shower that is going to be taking place
here in United Arab Emirates. (triumphant orchestral music)
And still the opportunity to make the most of the moment,
get the photographs blasted across the world.
– Thank you so much for watching.
– Now, we made this video because Christina,
Evan’s video editor, and her husband Sam asked him to do it.
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– I’d also love to know which of Kimi Raikkonen’s
top ten rules you felt the most connection to.
Leave it in the comments
and we’re going to join in the discussion.
Thank you so much for watching,
continue to believe, and we’ll see you soon.
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