Ferrari, Raikkonen: “We deserved much more”
For Kimi the race was compromised by his position at the start
di Piero Ladisa9 October 2016
"After yesterday's good qualifying, the gearbox problem and the resulting grid penalty certainly didn't help on this type of track – declared Kimi Raikkonen, who finished fifth in the Japanese GP – Obviously I'm very disappointed, because we had a good car and if we had started in third place, with the speed we had, we would have had a better chance of fighting. I started well, but then I got stuck behind other cars: this affected the behavior of my car, it was difficult to stay close to the others and try to attack. Once I had overtaken, with a clear track ahead, I was able to drive as I wanted. Our car was certainly fast today, it deserved a better result. Unfortunately, things went like this... ".
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