The news that Kimi Raikkonen will not be joining the Renault F1 team next year has not gone down well with the French companies car dealers.
Wolverhampton dealer, Darren Owens, 43, told us yesterday that since the news of Raikkonen’s possible… move broke last week, interest has increased considerably, with one couple expressing an interest in a Modus and one man even taking away a leaflet on the Twingo.
Said Owens; “Shifting cars in the recession is not easy, it’s even more difficult when those cars are Renault’s so we need all the help we can get and the prospect of Kimi being a Renault driver was very exciting.”
He added, “We have had posters up around the place of Robert Kubica and Vitaly Petrov and frankly Petrov looks like a zombie, which tends to put people off, while Kubica’s fizzog scares small children, at least Kimi is bearable to look at.”
“We are all very dissapointed.”
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