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Kimi Raikkonen and Nick Heidfeld finished seventh and 11th respectively for Team RED BULL SAUBER PETRONAS in today's Italian Grand Prix. Nick Heidfeld This was a very disappointing race for me. It went wrong on the grid formation lap when my car ...
Edited: Apr 15, 2002, 11:45 PM
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Kimi Raikkonen and Nick Heidfeld finished seventh and 11th respectively for Team RED BULL SAUBER PETRONAS in today's Italian Grand Prix.
Nick Heidfeld
This was a very disappointing race for me. It went wrong on the grid formation lap when my car developed a problem in the hydraulics and I had to start in the spare car from the pit lane. I caught the tail end of the field quite quickly, but then I lost a lot of time in the heavy traffic. I spent most of my time nursing my tyres as they began to lose their edge, and some laps the car was good and some laps it wasn't. It was a tough afternoon.
Kimi Raikkonen
I didn't make a great start and had already lost two places when Trulli spun in front of me in the first chicane. That lost me more, and having to run in traffic after that really compromised my race because we had gone for a light fuel load initially and intended to take on a higher load after my pit stop. After the stop I had to nurse the tyres for a long time and could only really attack Villeneuve in the closing stages. Then I was able to drop the gap from eight seconds to about half a second, but I just ran out of laps to get the final point.
Peter Sauber
I am grateful that there were no accidents this afternoon, but the race was a disappointment for us because we should have scored points. Unfortunately Nick's race was compromised even before the start when he had to switch to the T-car because of loss of hydraulic pressure, and then the T-car was not good enough to let him fight up from the back. Kimi lost too much ground at the start trapped behind cars with higher fuel loads to enable our own fuel strategy to reap the dividend that it deserved. On the positive side, however, we retain our fourth place in the constructors' championship.
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