Kimi R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen – 10th:<\/b><\/p>\n
\u00ab It was an intense race, and I didn’t have the desired pace all the time. A lot of things happened. I went off at the last corner, on the 52nd lap, because I couldn’t see very well anymore; my visor was dirty and fogged up. Where I went off, it’s possible to get back on the track by going through the pits of the support races, but you have to go through a gate. I knew this because I had done the same thing in 2001, and the gate was open. Someone had closed it this time. Next year, I’ll make sure to check if it’s open. \u00bb<\/p>\n
Romain Grosjean – Retirement:<\/b><\/p>\n
\u00ab I’m a bit shaken, but otherwise, it’s not too bad. Everything was perfectly under control at the beginning of the race, then everything happened very suddenly at turn 11. It was bizarre, I saw that it was raining a little more and I had eased off a bit compared to the previous lap. And all of a sudden the car got away from me and it was over. I didn’t have much luck this weekend and it’s obviously not the way I wanted to end the season. But overall, it has been a good year and I hope that many more great days are to come. \u00bb<\/p>\n
[From the official statement released by Lotus F1 Team]<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Lotus could have dreamed of a better end to their 2012 season as only Kimi R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen finished the race, in tenth place. While Romain Grosjean went off the track, taking a 9.5 G hit at the moment of impact, Kimi R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen might have hoped for better without a detour into a dead-end escape road. However, the Finn retains his third place in the drivers’ standings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":41169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,1749],"tags":[92,634],"class_list":["post-18061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-f1","category-news","tag-bilan","tag-interlagos"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n