Obvious Journalism.

I do sometimes have to question the creativity of the ITV-F1.com journalists sometimes. They obviously get stuck for a story sometimes, and so result to pointing out the blindingly obvious.

Take this for example.

http://www.itv-f1.com/News_Article.aspx?PO_ID=37461

As if Kimi is going to do anything other than that. Imagine it...

Kimi aims for mediocrity in China.

McLaren-Mercedes heads to China this weekend, tired of fighting for victories, with just three races until the end of the season.

Incredible though it may seem, you have to go all the way back to July of this year, at Magny Cour to find their last,slightly better than average result, where they finished a half-arsed fifth.

But the Finn, who leaves the team at the end of the year after signing a multi-year deal with Ferrari to replace retiring Michael Schumacher, is determined to end McLaren's competetive streak before he goes.

"So far in China I have finished in third and second and to be honest I think that's good enough. I'm a bit tired right now, it's been a long season so I figured I'd just give up and aim for the middle of the field somewhere. Ninth or tenth would be good. Twelfth would be ideal but I think I'm really going to have to laze it up alot to reach that result." he said.

The team's CEO, Martin Whitmarsh, is confident that McLaren made progress during the highly-publicised Silverstone test, which saw Lewis Hamilton make his graduation to F1 test driver, and believes that a first eight place of the season may not be far off.

"It was a productive couple of days and although we are arriving in China in a different postion to alsmost every other race we have been in ever, where we are battling for the championship, we are going to fight hard for mediocrity, " he said.

"The two races at the Shanghai track to date have both seen some very close and exciting battles and Team McLaren Mercedes would like to finish this trend.

"The car felt strong in Monza, the performance had increased, but the bland work we did at Silverstone should put us in a good position.

"It is going to be hard however, the Shanghai International Circuit is a tough track, but we will push to the medium."

Pedro de la Rosa stays in the second seat for China and the Spaniard is keen to get on with a mid race siesta, after his wet weather success in Hungary.

"I am really looking forward to getting in a snooze in the middle of the race in Shanghai, " he said.

"I drove there last year on Friday without the team knowing, and I really enjoyed missing all of the track. It is the kind of circuit where you really get to learn all the places you can pull over for a quick bit of Tapas and a bit of a siesta, ole! I think this new race strategy I'm going to try will help push the team to the middle of the pack, because at the end of the day non of us can be arsed with messing around at the front anymore.

"I completed all of 5 laps last year, so I have some good experience of the track and I can't wait to sleep on it."


Way to go to point out the fucking obvious ITV-F1.