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Raikkonen 'drives without instructions' - Zehnder

Aug.13 Alfa Romeo, formerly Sauber, is more than impressed with Kimi Raikkonen. Raikkonen actually started his F1 career at Sauber as a controversially-inexperienced 21-year-old, with Beat Zehnder as the team manager. Zehnder is still at Hinwil, and he told Auto Motor und Sport he is now even more impressed with Raikkonen after his 21 wins and the 2007 title. "Kimi drives without instructions," Zehnder enthused. Indeed, Raikkonen is famous for once telling his Lotus engineer over the radio: "Leave me alone, I know what I'm doing." Alfa Romeo is even somewhat of a one-driver team at present, as Antonio Giovinazzi has scored just 1 of the team's 31 points so far in 2019....
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