Kimi Raikkonen has told their views on the current F1 cars to V6 hybrid engines.Evening press F1 in the studio Jyrki lake grove into Kimi Raikkonen started the season with Alfa Romeo.
Formula one to revolutionize the the season 2013 and 2014, when the premier class to give up eight-cylinder from a V8 engine, and having access to more environmentally-friendly and säyseämmän V6 engine.
Many think that the F1 was ruined in season 2014, when the car impacted mainly on the version from the previous season’s versions compared.
– the Difference was then, I think, really big, because everything was completely new and, of course, all work in different ways, Kimi Raikkonen recalls Racing Fans-site.
Raikkonen had that engine swap just moved from Lotus back to Ferrari.
– at Least at Ferrari we were far from where we left off in the previous season, Raikkonen said.
Raikkonen, according to the 2014 car were ”completely different driving characteristics” of the previous comparison. The current cars are, in turn, a Finnish veteran, very close to their older V8 engines equipped with the F1-cannons.
– Now when we drive, at least the way I remember it, they do not differ from them much, it all works very nicely. At least most of the time. The extent that driving is no longer any more different, with Raikkonen inches.
Nostalgia and the old life seems in this respect pointless.
One thing to distinguish, however, nykyauto ”the good old days”. Engine sound world is still very tame V8 era compared to the. This curse was the last time, inter alia, Lewis Hamilton Bahrain grand prix below.
– Okay, the sound is a little different, Raikkonen admits.
But driving itself is not, we are doing still the same stuff.
the F1 season continues next weekend in China.
Alfa romeo’s Kimi Raikkonen said that the nykyauto little different from the old – if the engine sounds not included in the comparison. AOP
