Formula 1 | Ferrari, Raikkonen looks at the glass half full: "The car is competitive"

Despite the excellent race pace expressed by his teammate, Kimi Raikkonen was unable to make the most of the potential of the SF71H, losing the chance to lap in FP2 due to a power unit problem. Leaving aside the disappointment, however, Kimi seemed very optimistic ahead of tomorrow, underlining how the car performed well on a significantly different track compared to those faced in the first part of the season. The Finn, we remember, closed FP2 with a time of 1'18"829, placing himself in sixth position behind Valtteri Bottas' Mercedes W09 E-Power+.

Here are the words of Kimi Raikkonen: “It's impossible to understand things exactly because this circuit is very different from the previous ones. It wasn't a linear Friday for us, but we know what to do and so I'm quite optimistic. In the end it went well and in theory it should go the same tomorrow too. I don't look at the time because this is the day where we evaluate all the new solutions, so it's more about learning new things about the car. Tomorrow we will see everyone's strength, but I think we will all be very close."

On the problem he added: “We don't know exactly what happened. The guys will examine the car to understand what went wrong, but in theory everything should be ok for tomorrow."