Ferrari, Raikkonen: “Positively surprised”

"Overall the car behaved quite well, we had suffered a bit of understeer, but little by little we improved set-up and performance – declared Kimi Raikkonen, who will start the Japanese Grand Prix tomorrow from third position – Mi it was positively surprising to see how competitive and close we were to the Mercedes. Today the understeer had decreased and this helped a lot in the first part of the lap. Third position is not bad, but obviously we want to do even better. For now this is what we have and it's a shame that Seb has a penalty, because the team had a great qualifying. Obviously we are happy with how it went, but if we want to improve we have to work again and have another positive day tomorrow. However, the speed is there and I don't think it will suddenly disappear tomorrow. Usually in race configuration we go better, but let's wait to talk. Much will depend on conditions and other factors, we will do our best".