Bahrain Grand Prix is far behind, but it will certainly offer chatting for a longer time. Last night I got phone calls from Italy when Italian reporter colleagues wanted to update their information about Kimi Räikkönen and wanted a Finnish perspective about expectations for the upcoming races.

On Tuesday I was in Helsinki when my old friend Erkki Vanhanen's book about track-racing was published in the sport museum. What do you know, the main talk was Bahrain GP.

Commentator Tomi Tuominen told that the race nailed him down for the whole hour and a half.

– I don't remember the last time when I followed the whole race from beginning to end without moving at all. It was a race where you couldn't miss anything, because the situation was on the whole time and it could had changed any way possible, Tuominen praised.

Räikkönen on the podium for the first time in two years and seven months is the kind of a push that we have needed in Finland.

The first blue-white F1-voice Matti Kyllönen was on fire over the F1-spring.

What kind of energy has following F1-races offered you?

– I don't even know which word would be the right word to describe the situation - other than AWESOME! It's just awesome that we once again find this kind of behavior from our success-hungry nation. F1 hasn't been nearly as interesting in two years and through success we jump to a completely new level, Kyllönen smiles.

– Now it feels good again and I can breathe. I have the anticipation 'is this true?' all the time. It's too good to be true.

– I even had an itch during the race that is it right if Kimi wins already now. Will it go too much the easiest way? It is really interesting when the season has only started and he has already been on the podium. I'm sure he will be there in the future also. Now we just have to wait in which GP the first victory happens.

How does it feel when tyres decide so much?

– It is somehow extremely problematic, artificial. Just like Michael Schumacher said last weekend. Somehow it was easy to agree with him.

– Maybe it has gone a bit too far but of course it's extremely great for spectators to follow - just like the race in China. In one moment completely shocking things happened position-wise. It's a carefully considered formula we work with now and we just have to live with it.

Then who wins in Barcelona?

– One of the McLarens. It has to be one of them, Kyllönen thinks.

MTV3's commentator Mika Salo is recovering from the disease he got in China and he also sees the shady side of the street in these GP-thrillers.

Four races and four different winners from four different teams. Can this continue?

– It looks like it would continue. It goes so criss-cross that you can't say which ones are certainly in the top five. That's why all speculation should be completely forgotten.

– I wouldn't enjoy it at all if I were a driver in some team and wouldn't know if I'm first or 10th. Either you leave happy or *** No swearing *** disappointed, there is not that evenness anymore where one good car is always in the lead. Now the power relations swing from here to there, Salo said.

What about the tyre-department? Good or bad?

– On one hand it's good since it's really cool for the viewer. The teams only have to learn how to use them. At some point they will change again. Pirelli isn't the end of the world. At some point a new tyre-supplier comes along and everything starts from scratch again and they have to learn to use them. You just have to get used to them.

How difficult is it for a commentator to see which tyres someone is driving with?

– It's insanely difficult. They don't tell it to anyone, because what they are doing is a big secret at that moment. And FIA doesn't give that table where it says which tyres whomever has used.

– I was in the race steward -tower to get acquainted with my steward-business in Valencia, they have a list of drivers and beside each driver they have all the tyres they have and how many laps they have drove with each set. They know exactly if someone has for example drove 4 laps with some tyre etc.

– We should have someone there to comment on the same data. It would be like now we're talkin ', sports fans! But for some reason they don't give them out for that kind of distribution, Salo said.

Who wins in Barcelona?

– You tell. It's the same thing. Barcelona is again completely different from any other race the whole year, because teams have already tested there in winter with these cars. It's easy to bring updates there, because based upon the tests you see immediately if the new parts work or not. They have so good data.

– In other words those who were fast in Barcelona's winter tests, they are also fast in May. Go figure. Kimi was fastest then and he will also be fast during the GP-weekend. How it goes for Kimi, that again depends upon how the other teams have gone forward.

– Barcelona has always been the most boring race in the season, because cars have due to testing already been put in positions. Lets hope that it changes at least a bit, Salo says.

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