US GP, Raikkonen: “The problem in the pit? I couldn't do anything else."

Kimi Raikkonen's US weekend ends with a retirement, struggling with a lot of balance issues throughout the weekend. Although he was showing good pace in the race on the supersoft tyre, he was knocked out by a problem during the tire change, where the right rear was not screwed in correctly.

“I haven't spoken to the team yet, but I didn't know that the right rear hadn't been fixed correctly. I couldn't do anything else” – commented the Finn after the end of the race -. “When I left I asked if everything was okay because I saw sparks from the back of the car. Then I slowed down and had to stop"

Compared to yesterday, Raikkonen seems to have had fewer difficulties in the race, even if there was a lack of grip during the second stint on the soft tyre: “My performance was similar to qualifying. The others were probably slower than qualifying, but with the second set of tires I had no grip. Sometimes it happens with the soft tires that we have no grip, whereas when I put the supersofts back on the car was fine again. In the end we didn't understand the reason for this difference, but that's how it happened" concluded the Ferrari driver.

Gianluca D'Alessandro