"In rallying every curve, every hill may be different than you thought. That makes it interesting"
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Formula 1 sells repeatability: memorized braking points, data, refinement, the same corners attacked until they’re solved. Rallying punishes that mindset. “Every curve, every hill” isn’t just scenery; it’s uncertainty as a competitive variable. Your pacenotes might be right and still feel wrong because grip changes, light shifts, the car moves, your nerve fluctuates. Raikkonen frames that instability not as a threat but as the point. “That makes it interesting” is classic Kimi: minimal words, maximum shrug, a refusal to over-explain what thrills him.
The intent feels almost defensive in its simplicity. He’s not pitching rallying with heroic language; he’s sidestepping the marketing and telling you what actually hooks a driver who’s already seen the pinnacle of motorsport. The subtext is that mastery isn’t control, it’s adaptation - the skill of staying composed when the map doesn’t match the terrain. Coming from a celebrity athlete famous for deadpan interviews, the line also reads as a quiet rebuke to spectators who demand drama in soundbites: the drama is in the margins, in the unexpected hill you crest too fast.
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Raikkonen, Kimi. (2026, January 17). In rallying every curve, every hill may be different than you thought. That makes it interesting. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/in-rallying-every-curve-every-hill-may-be-75664/
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Raikkonen, Kimi. "In rallying every curve, every hill may be different than you thought. That makes it interesting." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/in-rallying-every-curve-every-hill-may-be-75664/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"In rallying every curve, every hill may be different than you thought. That makes it interesting." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/in-rallying-every-curve-every-hill-may-be-75664/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.






