Saturday, October 17, 2009

between two lakes in Sao Paolo.....

is a race track named Interlagos and it is the next scene of the championship showdown between Rubens Barrichello, Sebastien Vettel and Jenson Button. But I'm not interested in the drivers battle, qualis was great, rain and all but I'm up at 2:53 am not to blog about the qualifying results but to wish my most favourite of Formula 1 racing drivers, Kimi-Matias Raikkonen, a happy 30th birthday. So here goes.....

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE ICEMAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thirty exclamation marks for 30 years. Have a great night celebrating the rest of your birthday in Brazil. It's been a bit of a crappy day thus far what with all the rain and having to drive around in the wet but you did me proud by coming in P5.

Sigh. It was nice to hear all the commentators talk about how it's your brilliance that's getting the car where it is although it makes me suspicious of their motives when they talk nice about you, Kimster. Isn't it sad that when people compliment you it's taken with a bit of reserve since they've been bashing you so badly in the media for the past 2 years or so it's odd when they do the opposite :)

And to the nice bald Ferrari guy who held up the nicely handwritten birthday note for Kimi to the cameras, I love you for acknowledging him, it was very, very sweet. In a time when he surely feels a bit uncomfortable in the garage, to still have some kind of friendly support is always appreciated.


Here's to a great race for you and hopefully an incident-free start. Let's try not to cross paths with Adrian Sutil or those jinx stories will follow you guys forever :). Oh, and I hope Ruben's race goes spectacularly well cos I want to see him as WDC. Sorry Button, I just don't see you as WDC material. Anyways, one last time.....

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KIMI RAIKKONEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

UPDATE (18/10/2009):
Ok, so Ferrari is still acting like one nice big happy family to Kimi so I'll just say thanks for still celebrating his birthday with a big cake and the champagne. I'm glad that you showed no disparity in treatment of your drivers when it comes to the more personal aspects like birthdays. This was a nice gesture and Kimi looks mighty appreciative of the gesture. After all, he's got his hands on the champagne, ready to get some kind of buzz after the P5 he managed to pull out. Thanks Dom for the photo op.