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Kimi Raikkonen Gets His First Formula One Pole Position In Nine Years
Kimi Raikkonen Gets His First Formula One Pole Position In Nine Years-May 2024
2024-02-19 EST 22:11:22

For the first time since the Great Recession, Ferrari driver and , Kimi Raikkonen, will be on pole position for a Formula One race. Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton will start 14th after a disastrous—well, by his standards—qualifying session in which he didn’t make it to the final round.

This is Raikkonen’s first pole since the French Grand Prix in 2008, a full 129 F1 races ago. And it’s not just any pole position: This weekend is the Monaco Grand Prix, which is kind of a big deal. Monaco is also where Raikkonen is known for , which he probably hopes won’t happen on this particular Sunday. But then again, who knows.

Raikkonen’s Ferrari teammate Sebastian Vettel will start second in the race, and the NBC Sports broadcast said it’s only the second time since 1979 that there’s been an all-Ferrari front row for the Monaco weekend. will start third.

Bottas, —the name of the driver he replaced, Nico Rosberg, who —by his own race team, got passed up in the NBC Sports broadcast as “Valtteri, we’ll get to you in a minute.” This poor guy.

Hamilton, on the opposite side of the luck spectrum at Mercedes, spent a lot of his time in the garage . It was so bad, even, that the hilariously terrible McLaren F1 cars out-qualified him in ninth and 10th.

Hamilton didn’t even make the final qualifying session reserved for the fastest 10 drivers, since he didn’t really have time to set a fast lap during the second qualifying session and wound up knocked out. Hamilton will start 14th Sunday.

It doesn’t sound like it was a very fun session for Hamilton, and the full lineup can be found . But Raikkonen, in about as monotone of a statement as he could after his first pole in nine years, said qualifying “was very good fun.”

Totally. We can hear it in your voice, Kimi.

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