キミによるアブダビGPレビューをご紹介します。2009年シーズンもあっという間でしたね。
来年の去就が取りざたされていますが、このレビューを読む限り、キミのファイティング精神はちっとも消えてない！

「モチベーションがまったく消えていないと言うことができるよ。レースへの興味は、子供の頃からまったく変わってない。レースをすることがすべてなんだ！ 」「戦いは続くよ！」

頼もしい！！

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今回も、ファンが英訳してくれたフィン語版のほうを日本語訳してみました。

「ライコネンは来年休養したほうが儲かる」というニュースをドイツのメディアが報じたらしいですが、これを読む限り、キミが来年休養するなんて、全くないですね！
むしろ、レースをすることへの情熱がバシバシ感じられます。来年のことに関して、進展があった、というか、キミはもうすでに決めてるようですね。
「戦いは続くよ！」という言葉を信じて、よいニュースを待ちましょう！！

ところで、やっぱり、キミは現代的なサーキットはあまり好みじゃないんですね。フェラーリ公式版のほうだと、そんなこと書いてないけど（＾＾；
アブダビは、見た目は豪華だけど、サーキット自体は退屈でした。やっぱり、ティルケ・サーキット。今回はぎりぎり買えたチケットがメイングランドスタンドしかなかったこともあって、現地で見てても、レース自体はあまりエキサイティングではなかったです。
フェラーリガレージ前にフラッグを貼れたり、恒例の記念撮影を見られたり、レース前のグリッドでキミの様子を眺めることができたので、メイングラスタでよかったとも思うのですが。私の席からは、最終コーナーの立ち上がりまでは何とか見えたけど、やっぱりレースが始まってしまうと、メイングラスタって面白くない。現地観戦って、どの席で見るかも悩ましいですね。

Ciao Ferrari!
(Translation Courtesy of Wolfie)

Three years with Ferrari came and went. It was a fabulous time.
My dream came true the first time when we won the championship. We started well at the second time and were third in the final points. About this time there is a little in my toothole because we would have wanted to race for the championship but weren’t able to do so at any point. At least there were a few races that made me happy.
I will have only good memories of the team and got some friends forever from there. Thank you to all of them. Ciao Ferrari!
The season and my job-time with the team ended in Abu Dhabi. It wasn’t much of a race. We didn’t get anywhere on the technical track with our car. And as a track it didn’t really fire me up at all. These modern tracks don’t seem to be my thing. I dig a lot the old lanes. There’s a good thing going on on those tracks. These new just don’t offer the same feeling to really really race.
We already knew when going there that Yas Marina is going to be as tricky to us as Singapore was. The more curves, the more our car loses time. We were almost in Q3 in quali. 11th position was a good result. We lost one place in the start and stayed there too.
The gang probably asks what we do next year. I think we can at some point tell what we have decided. I can say that much that the motivation hasn’t gone anywhere. Racing interests me as much as it did when I was a kid. Racing is everything!
But now I’m going to keep a short vacation. The season was hard and we knew it already before we started to race when we were so much behind the lead. Fortunately we at least won in Spa. That is the highlight of this season and the only thing that stays in my mind.
F1 is going through a tough change. The regulations will change again. Let’s hope that in the future they will be the same for everyone and in a way so that they can’t be
understood as you want to.
I’m preparing for the next season like before. First I take in some oxygen and then I’ll keep the touch alive. Let’s wait and see where we drive. Thank you to all the fans and mates who have supported me. The fight goes on!

 

＜フェラーリ公式版原文＞
Ciao Ferrari, my dream came true with you

That’s it. My story with Ferrari ended last Sunday in Abu Dhabi: with the “Reds” I had the possibility to make one of my dreams come true, while now I’m looking ahead, waiting for new challenges. What’s for sure is that I’ll leave Maranello with lots of very nice memories. Over the last three years I’ve won nine races and a Drivers’ Title and I contributed to winning two Constructors’ Championships. I made many friends at Ferrari and we spent some great moments together. True, this year things didn’t go as we had expected, but in the world of racing you can always have a year where things go a little wrong. The package wasn’t competitive, but nevertheless we managed to finish fourth, just one point behind the third in the standings. We had problems with the car, but nevertheless we brought home some good result, starting with the victory in Spa. The team demonstrated that it knows how to react, what we could see after the bad start into the season.

We didn’t do well in Abu Dhabi, but we knew that gaining points would be difficult: this circuit has lots of corners and we were lacking downforce and grip. Furthermore we had problems on the kerbs, worsening the situation. When you start from the eleventh position and cross the line twelfth, you don’t have to say anything. The circuit’s structures are just breathtaking, but the track didn’t offer too many possibilities for overtaking and in the end the race turned into some sort of parade.

Now everybody is fully concentrated on the next season, as Ferrari has already been for several months. There will be further changes – refuelling won’t be allowed anymore and the front tyres will be thinner – but they won’t be as radical as this year. At the start of the races the single-seaters will be fairly difficult to drive with all the fuel on board and it will be crucial that we don’t stress the tyres too much. The qualifyings will be lots of fun, because we’ll drive with almost empty tanks in Q3. I’ve been racing for nine years in Formula 1 now. I still want to win races and titles, but I’ll only stay in F1 if I can find a team that can guarantee me a car I can use to fight for victory. Let’s see what will happen in the upcoming weeks.

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