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F1 engineer Slade says Raikkonen ‘best driver'

Dec.16 Highly experienced F1 engineer Mark Slade says retired 2007 world champion was in one way 'the best driver I've ever worked with'. Slade, with a wealth of experience gathered at McLaren, Renault and Mercedes, moved recently to Haas where he now works with Kevin Magnussen. But he is most famous for engineering Raikkonen's cars, even though he also worked with world champions Mika Hakkinen, Fernando Alonso and Michael Schumacher. 'For me, Kimi's the best driver I've ever worked with to set up the car,' he told Motorlat. 'He's absolutely phenomenal. His feel for changes was just astonishing. 'You would make a change, and he would tell you that was better here and worse here. He could...
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