That tattoo story in full

When Kimi turned up in Malaysia sporting a new tattoo on his right forearm(I'm not a big fan of tattoos as it goes, but this one looked OK) there was much twittering in the Formula One village. The subject reached centre stage on Friday when freelance journalist Mike Doodson raised the matter with Ferrari boss Jean Todt at the official post-practice press conference.

I'm not going to add anything to this except to say that Kimi, who was sitting alongside Todt at the presser, looked a little embarrassed throughout. But draw your own conclusions from this verbatim transcript supplied by the FIA.

Q. (Mike Doodson) Question for Jean: Kimi's tattoo – I wonder if he asked you (about it) before the work was done in Melbourne and if he didn't ask, what advice would you, or your sponsors, have given him?

JT: I read about it. Yesterday, we had dinner and it was not part of the agenda, so I did not notice (phone rings) but the most important thing (for me) is our people in the team to be happy.

So, if Kimi would be happy to put a tattoo on the face, and feel comfortable, honestly, if you ask my opinion, I would say better put it somewhere where it is not so disruptive because you may then have some problems in the future, but you know I mean a lot of things are said, you know not smiling, smiling, but at the end of the day we are whole up in the team everybody is very focussed with or without tattoo and I don't care.

It is as simple as that. And if a sponsor complains about the tattoo I am prepared to change the sponsor to keep him happy.

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