Kimi Raikkonen starts 22nd in Sunday's NASCAR Cup race at COTA, and says the track is 'a bit trickier' to navigate in stock cars. He also enjoys the lack of an overtaking aid like DRS, with passing opportunities coming more naturally:
made his Cup debut at Watkins Glen last August, starting 27th and finishing 37th after getting collected in incident exiting the bus stop chicane. for the first time since the 2017 Monaco Grand Prix.
“It's different. In F1, it’s a lot of meetings and a lot of other stuff," he explained."Here, it’s a bit more relaxed. You kind of have the meetings, but it’s a different way. I don’t have the experience with the cars and all the details, so we had a meeting yesterday as a group, as a whole team, and it’s nice to listen and assess what they thought about the car and what they should do with the car. I think it sounds like everybody has similar difficulties with the cars here.
“Obviously, I have some experience on different cars and different categories. I did Rally, which is completely different to what I was used to doing in F1," he began."NASCAR, again, it’s easy to think that they’re all kind of similar because you have a steering wheel and four tires, but it changes a lot.
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