🎙️| Kimi Raikkonen: “When I left Ferrari at the end of 2018, I hoped the team would quickly find my successor in the championship record books.”
“That still hasn’t happened, but from afar I can see encouraging signs.”
Q: I was wondering if you could just recall your first “welcome to F1” moment and just what was going through your mind at that time.
Lewis Hamilton: "My moment was Monza 2006. Just won the GP2 championship. It’s on the grid, Kimi was on pole and I had the privilege of going onto the grid, and I was standing in front of Kimi’s car, and Ron put his arm around me and he told me, looking up to Turn 1, he says, “I’m going to give you a chance.” That was the moment. In the moment, I couldn’t quite believe it and I didn’t know if he was like, “I’m going to give you a chance”… I didn’t know what it was going to be a chance at, if it was really… That’s what I was thinking when I left. But obviously that was the moment that he had decided that he was going to give me a chance for 2007."
(Question asked by the wonderful @F1GuyDan)