Ex-engenheiro diz que Kimi foi o melhor piloto com quem ele trabalhou com relação ao gerenciamento de corrida
F1 | Exclusive interview with F1 race engineer Julien Simon-Chautemps: Räikkönen "the best driver I've been working with by far" when it came to race management In the first part of MotorLAT's exclusive with the former F1 race engineer, we spoke to him about working with Kimi Räikkönen. Julien Simon-Chautemps was Kimi Räikkönen’s last race engineer in Formula One when the Finn retired at the end of the 2021 season. Before Räikkönen rejoined Alfa Romeo/Sauber in 2019, the two had already worked together for a couple of seasons at Lotus. Simon-Chautemps was a performance engineer on Räikkönen’s car in 2012 and 2013. They had plenty of success on the Finn’s side of the garage during that period with two wins and fifteen podiums. Unsurprisingly, two of his favourite racing memories are the victories with Räikkönen – the 2012 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix and the 2013 Australian Grand Prix. “I worked with Kimi and that was a great moment [in time]," he said when s...
