Lotus Happy for Raikkonen to Take Risks
Kimi Raikkonen's Lotus team have ruled out reining in the 2007 Formula One world champion after the Finn crashed and hurt his wrist while competing in a snowmobile race at the weekend.
Memories of Robert Kubica's near-fatal rally accident last February are still raw at the former Renault outfit, with the Pole yet to get back in the *** No swearing *** after missing the entire 2011 season.
However Lotus Group CEO Dany Bahar, whose Malaysian-owned sportscar company are now the renamed team's title sponsors, made clear on Monday that racing drivers could never be wrapped in cotton wool.
\"It is part of our job to do things that are risky, we do it commercially and corporately, Kimi does it in his own life,\" he told reporters at a lunch.
\"I like these characters. It's unfortunate if he hurts himself but it's part of life.
\"Kimi is Kimi and it will be difficult to change the way he lives,\" added Bahar.
\"It's not something we are focused on from a group perspective, saying: 'This is Kimi now you have to do everything to protect him from going out of his own house'. It doesn't work.\"
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Memories of Robert Kubica's near-fatal rally accident last February are still raw at the former Renault outfit, with the Pole yet to get back in the *** No swearing *** after missing the entire 2011 season.
However Lotus Group CEO Dany Bahar, whose Malaysian-owned sportscar company are now the renamed team's title sponsors, made clear on Monday that racing drivers could never be wrapped in cotton wool.
\"It is part of our job to do things that are risky, we do it commercially and corporately, Kimi does it in his own life,\" he told reporters at a lunch.
\"I like these characters. It's unfortunate if he hurts himself but it's part of life.
\"Kimi is Kimi and it will be difficult to change the way he lives,\" added Bahar.
\"It's not something we are focused on from a group perspective, saying: 'This is Kimi now you have to do everything to protect him from going out of his own house'. It doesn't work.\"
Full article: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/spor ... 085701.cms
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