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Raikkonen takes blame for bizarre first-lap crash
Kimi Raikkonen has explained that he wasn’t looking when he drove into Antonio Giovinazzi on the pit straight at the start of the Portuguese Grand Prix. Giovinazzi was ahead of his Alfa Romeo teammate ending the first lap at Portimao but Raikkonen picked up a slipstream on the pit straight and was closing in. While Giovinazzi covered the inside line, Raikkonen drifted across and ran into the left-rear tire of the other Alfa Romeo, breaking his own front wing that got lodged under his wheels and forced his retirement, also leading to a safety car. Kimi's race only lasted one lap 💔#PortugueseGP 🇵🇹 #F1 pic.twitter.com/a3ATQhLGRB — Formula 1 (@F1) May 2, 2021 “It was...
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