F1 | Raikkonen, 5 places penalty: “After the accident I lost feeling”

The redemption after the missed start in the Malaysian GP has not yet arrived Kimi Raikkonen. The Finn, in fact, after going against the fence in FP3 had to replace the cultural, and then it will start a Suzuka with 5 penalty positions. The mechanics Ferrari they managed to do an amazing job to get Iceman back on track in time for Q1. At the end of qualifying Raikkonen achieved a difficult 6th place due to the lack of feeling on the circuit.

“Obviously it's never a great start to the day when you go off track like that. After that moment everything became more difficult, difficult to find the feeling”, said Raikkonen a Sky Sports after qualifying.

The episode of Kimi's accident in free practice was also incredible: the stewards were very slow in bringing his car back to the garage, more than 20 minutes after the end of FP3, with Maurice Arrivabene very angry and nervous in the pits due to the big delay, which forced the mechanics to start procedures to repair the car afterwards. Tomorrow the Finn will start 10th, also considering Alonso's penalty who will start in last position. Ferrari's work was excellent as always and it managed to bring the race back in a short time and with the delay of the commissioners SF70H on track for Q1.

“The team made a good job, managing to rebuild the car in time for Q1, but I didn't have excellent sensations in qualifying, also because I wasn't able to do a sufficient number of laps to find the right ones. Tomorrow we'll see what we can do. After a mistake like the one this morning you lose a bit of feeling and on a circuit like this it becomes a bit complicated,” concluded Raikkonen.