Posted 02 April 2013 - 14:23
I voted Good Combination, Undecided, and Raikkonen, my choices and preferences as to where Kimi should be are very simple, he should try and be wherever he thinks he'll be happiest, when he's happy we see his best, and hopefully the results should follow.
He would be a great fit for Red Bull, at least image wise, but i'm not so confident he'd actually "fit in" so well with the other aspects, would he consider a sponsors event still a sponsors event even if it meant he was riding a motocross bike ? We dont know, and we dont know what kind of workload they'd expect from him in this regard, though come to think of it, I dont recall Vettel/Webber doing as many sponsors events as say Button/Lewis did for McLaren.
I was somewhat sceptical at how Kimi would be received at Lotus, especially by Boullier, but there seems to be a mutual and very genuine respect between them, each giving the other what they need, that alone has to be worth something, its my opinion that in Kimi's eyes, and Boulliers eyes, the relationship is beneficial to both, Kimi gets all the support he needs, Boullier gets the best results that Kimi can give in any given situation, in short, it seems a team in relative harmony, when Kimi won last year he talked about how it was great for the team, but not only they guys at the track/factory, the owners as well, having had some difficult times, I dont think i've ever heard such a statement from Kimi before, for me it said much about him caring for the team as a whole, and as we've seen recently, its all about the team, win together, lose together, its possible that Lotus do face difficulties, difficulties that Red Bull may never face, but perhaps those difficulties also serve to strengthen bonds, to unite, to make the wins even more special. I think Kimi is very much at home with Lotus, and its great to follow.