Within the podcast, Emma Kimiläinen talks about her moments of horror: Drive in the direction of the wall – 2024-06-10 17:42:16

Emma Kimiläinen in Sweden 2015. AOP

Ex-car athlete Emma Kimiläinen visited Gogi’s Kantabaari podcast along with Erikoisjoukot head coach Janne Lehtonen with. Kimiläinen recalled a wild scenario throughout coaching for the Singapore F1 Video games, the place he was near dropping his life.

– The mechanic had made a mistake throughout coaching. He had bled the fluid brakes, the place the air bubbles are eliminated, in order that the brake pedal doesn’t go to the underside. That is how the brakes work as they need to, Kimiläinen mentioned within the episode.

– There’s a small valve within the brakes and he (the mechanic) had forgotten to shut it with a cap after bleeding.

Kimiläinen mentioned that the brakes labored throughout apply for 3 laps, after which the brakes failed. He recollects a scenario the place he was driving 240 km/h on a straight street. The nook on the finish of the street didn’t have the standard safety space that’s often discovered on the finish of lengthy straights for potential driving errors. This time solely a wall was discovered on the finish.

– Thank God it is nonetheless there… the brakes nonetheless labored, however once I lifted the pedal up, I felt that there was one thing unusual about it.

Kimiläinen says that he tried the brake pedal proper after the activate the following straight and located that the pedal hit empty.

– I put (the pedal) within the backside. Nothing. There was nothing in it. I mentioned to the radio that “now it is the identical scenario, there are not any brakes, I will hit that wall”, he describes the scenario Gogi Mavromichalisille and to Lehton.

The ex-car athlete rolled with out brakes in the direction of the following wall, however luckily the pace was not excessive, so no accidents have been prevented.

These days, Kimiläinen steers racing boats within the Tom Brady crew as an alternative of the steering wheel of a automobile. He’s additionally remembered for his on-off relationship with an ex-footballer Sami Hyypiaan. The couple broke up within the spring of this 12 months.