(Scudera Ferrari SpA via Twitter)
Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen declared himself much happier with how the F14-T has performed so far at the Brazilian Grand Prix this weekend having had strong results in practice on Friday and Saturday. The Finn has really struggled with this years car and is currently in 12th place in the championship on 47 points with just two Grand Prix remaining this season.
The Iceman said after qualifying that 'anything can happen in the race.' after qualifying in 10th place for the event. Speaking to the Ferrari website following qualifying Raikkonen said:
'This weekend, I’ve had a better feeling in the car and, in general, I’ve had no major problems while I also felt more comfortable with the front end. We lacked speed today and even though this was our quickest lap of the weekend, it was not enough to finish higher up the grid.
Obviously, I’m a bit disappointed to be tenth and, without having done a race simulation yesterday, we are a bit in the dark like most teams. However, what counts is that finally I feel much more comfortable at the wheel, which means we are making progress.'
Raikkonen's team mate Fernando Alonso will start the race from 8th place on the grid just ahead of Infiniti Red Bull Racing's Daniel Ricciardo and is hoping that he can deliver as many points for Ferrari who go into tomorrow's race hoping to close the 42 point deficit to the Williams Martini Racing team in the race for third place in the Constructors championship.
Speaking to the Ferrari website the Spaniard who is reports are to be believed is set to join Kevin Magnussen at McLaren-Honda next season stated:
'Today’s result more or less reflects the way the whole weekend has gone, even if here, a tenth of a second can be the difference between fifth and tenth places.
Both compounds worked very well, but I’m sure graining and degradation will give us a hard time tomorrow. It will be a long race and, apart from reliability, the key factor will be tyre management. As usual we will give it our all to finish in front of our competitors and score points in the Constructors’ championship.'
© Ben Johnston 2014
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