Team Accepts Raikkonen May Need Time on Return
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Group Lotus CEO Dany Bahar said on Monday that Raikkonen's two-year absence from F1 will not make it easy for him to produce results immediately - and underlined that all the outfit was looking for was consistent improvement.
\"You cannot expect from a driver that was absent for two years to come back and adapt to the new tyres and new regulations from day one, so he needs his time,\" said Bahar during a lunch with selected media in London on Monday.
He added: \"I think Kimi is a very good guy, he is a very pure guy. I respect him a lot, we respect him a lot and that is the reason he is with us. He has matured a lot in the past 10 years in F1, so he is a grown-up man and he knows his return to F1 is not easy and he knows he has to deliver.
\"Kimi is Kimi, and he is a world champion in F1,\" he said. \"He deserves definitely to have a higher value than a normal driver, just because he is Kimi Raikkonen.
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