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Raikkonen says Jerez laptimes are less important
Kimi Raikkonen says that topping the first day of pre-season testing means less to him than the ‘positive’ first sensations he received from the new Lotus E20 and Pirelli’s soft and medium tyre compounds that he tried for the first time at Jerez. The 2007 world champion played down his headline-grabbing fastest time at the Spanish circuit after ending up 0.1s faster than Paul di Resta’s Force India, having completed 73 laps on a relatively trouble-free day. “It makes no difference,” he said when asked how it felt to be quick-
est on his return to contemporary F1 action. “I mean it’s the first day, and it would make a difference if it were a race weekend, but here it means nothing.” But the Finn said that the information he gained using 2012-spec equipment and proper race tyres as opposed to the demo rubber he
had used prior to Tuesday’s official running - was hugely valuable as he continued to reacclimatise to the sport. “The feeling is pretty OK with the car and for sure I’ve had much worse first days and worse feelings with new cars,” he added. “I was quite happy with it.” “The feeling was pretty good with the car. The first feeling is handling quite nicely so... just going with that feeling I’m quite happy, but there are areas that we
can improve and that we have to improve. I’m positive about it.” Raikkonen completed 60 laps before the team broke for lunch, and during that morning he completed four stints culminating in a 1m19.670s lap – faster than Rubens Barrichello’s best overall time of 2011. And while Lotus’s afternoon was interrupted by the need to change a KERS battery, Raikkonen said he was pleased with the ground he had covered on the first day. “I did exactly what the team were planning, or not exactly because we missed a few laps
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“He was with Rebellion last year and I approached him to simply see how he likes the racing. I then met with the team owner Alex Pesci, and we quickly moved forward. “I think working with the best privateer team from 2011 gives me an ideal starting point to put a foot into sportscar racing to learn and compete.” Heidfeld played down the chance of him using the Rebellion drive to pave the way for a move to a factory team in the future. “I think it would be impolite to join a team and then say you want to move to another,” he added. “I am open to
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Travel agencies in Bali coalesced into the Association of the Indonesia Tours and Travel Agencies (ASITA) complained about the existence of porters. The presence of dozens of porter was considered to have disturbed the comfort of tourists and did not characterize an international airport.
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DENPASAR — Travel agencies in Bali coalesced into the Association of the Indonesia Tours and Travel Agencies (ASITA) complained about the existence of porters. The presence of dozens of porter was considered to have disturbed the comfort of tourists and did not characterize an international airport.
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“I and all the members of travel agencies are airport users and definite taxpayers. However, in terms of security and comfort aspect, it is not good for guests coming from various countries,” said Chairman of ASITA Bali, Al Purwa, in Denpasar. According to him, he had never seen any porters roaming around in the international airport overseas. They just collected the scattered trolleys that had been used or they
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Heidfeld rejected sportscars offers
Nick Heidfeld was deeply unimpressed when he was ousted Nick Heidfeld has revealed that he rejected other offers to race in sportscars this year before signing for Rebellion Racing. The Formula 1 veteran was confirmed last week as part of the team’s LMP1 lineup for selected events in the new World Endurance Championship, including the Le Mans 24 Hours. Speaking to AUTOSPORT, the German admitted that he had been in contact with other sportscar outfits over the winter, but he felt that Rebellion would be the best place to get accustomed to endurance racing. “Yes, I was in contact with a few LMP1 teams,” said Heidfeld when asked if there were any talks with factory squads. “The contact with Rebellion came through [engineer] James Robinson, who I worked with at Jordan.
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when we had a small issue,” he said. “We tried different things, we did a few checks. “But we did also quite a lot of the normal things you have to do on a first day yesterday, so that was a help to get rid of those. But it was a pretty normal first day.” Raikkonen added that he had been pleased with how the tyres had felt: “They are what they are and you try to get the best out of them. “When they are new they seem to be pretty nice tyres. Of course they probably go away more than in the past, but it’s the same for everybody and in a long run you try to save them as much as you can and get the best out of it.”
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English newspaper in Bali; International Bali Post won an award in Indonesia Print Media Award (IPMA) 2012 for Bali and Nusa Tenggara. The award was given by the Head of Newspaper Publisher Union (SPS), Dahlan Iskan in Ballroom Novita Hotel in Jambi on Tuesday, February 7, 2012. In the speech, Dahlan Iskan, said
that the concern on the drowning of printed media due to the effect of the online media is not true. This can be seen on the development of the printed media in Indonesia. He also said that the number of printed media joining the 2012 IPMA was increasing and also the quality was also getting better. This is the third IPMA and there is great hope that it will be better in the future.(019)
did not directly get in touch with tourists. “In the most sophisticated airport in the world, I did not see any porters roaming around. I’ve seen more than 100 international airports. The trolley has been provided conveniently and tourists just need to take it. Porters only collect the scattered trolleys at specified place,” he revealed. Continued on page 6