Raikkonen: “I'm still happy”

If it hadn't been for that snag coming out of the last corner, he probably would have held on to pole position Kimi Raikkonen. In Russian GP, the Finn will thus start in second position, alongside Sebastian Vettel, but still from the front row. An unsuccessful start but a performance still up to that of his teammate, who is the driver Ferrari he commented thus at the press conference.

“Obviously I'm sorry not to be in front but things went much better this weekend,” declared the Finn at the end of the day. “I found a little bit of traffic on the preparation lap in the last sector, and this perhaps didn't allow me to get the tires up to temperature as in the first attempt. For this reason it was a little more complicated even though I still got there; I tried to recover a bit in the last corner but the risk didn't pay off. However, I am happy: compared to previous qualifying sessions, I believe that today we had all the tools to get to the front today. The double for the team is not bad at all."