Race winner says he will ask pit wall for help only if he needs it
Monday 5 November 2012 14:49, UK
Kimi Raikkonen has politely warned his Lotus team that the Abu Dhabi GP "won't be the last time" he delivers a rebuke of their radio messages if they disturb him during the course of a race.
Lotus Trackside Operations Director Alan Permane was one of the team's hierarchy on the pit wall during the race listening into the radio traffic, and put to him by Sky Sports F1's Ted Kravitz that Raikkonen had given them a bit of a telling off, replied: "It was a fantastic race. "The safety cars made it a little bit difficult for us obviously - we were certainly worried after the last one on hard tyres what Fernando's tyres would be like on warm up, but he pulled away from him no problem at all. "He drove a perfect race."