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The Day Ferrari Sent Räikkönen in Rain Tires on a Track (...)

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Kimi Räikkönen once found himself equipped with extreme rain tires on a completely dry track. It was at the 2009 Malaysia Grand Prix, hit by a monsoon worthy of the worst conditions seen in Sepang, and a former Ferrari engineer explained how this unlikely situation could happen, not without making the Finnish driver particularly upset. Rob Smedley, then track engineer from Felipe Massa, explained that Ferrari was trying to set a perfect stop at …
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Kimi Räikkönen once found himself equipped with extreme rain tires on a completely dry track. It was at the 2009 Malaysia Grand Prix, hit by a monsoon worthy of the worst conditions seen in Sepang, and a former Ferrari engineer explained how this unlikely situation could happen, not without making the Finnish driver particularly upset. Rob Smedley, then track engineer from Felipe Massa, explained that Ferrari was trying to set a perfect stop at …

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Nextgen-Auto.com broke the news on Sunday, August 16, 2026.
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