Australia - Next Weekend

[JAB993]

Kimi could be the man this year although I am certain he will get a run for his money. In this months Motor Sport, one of the few motor magazines worth reading, there is an article by Nigel Roebuck reviewing the upcoming season. Recognising that F1 was becoming boring and your question is Kimi for 2008 he wrote...
 Fortunately the FIA has at last cottoned on to the fact that motor racing is not chess, that excitement is required, that overtaking-while it should never be easy-is an essential of the sport. And when you have a situation in which an Alonso or  Raikkonen can struggle even to lap a backmarker, imaging the difficulty involved in passing someone in a comparable car.
Think of what Kimi said after last year's Turkish GP, in which he finished second to Felipe Massa, the Ferraris unopposed throughout. On the penultimate lap he suddenly cranked out the fastest lap- more than half a second inside anyone else's best-and we wondered why. "Well" Kimi said, "the race was decided yesterday, really, in qualifying. It's so boring these days, driving behind other cars all the time - there is no passing, with the aerodynamics the way they are. I did a lap at the end because I just wanted to see what the car would do..."
If a man can get bored driving an 800-horsepower GP car.....

.....and so the article goes on. By eliminating some of the driver aids maybe Kimi will not be bored this year and secure that second world championship.