So, third race now... By Sunday we will see who did best at our pre-season predictions.
Another midnight race for me, I'm not sure if I will be able to watch it live.
Expectatios? Well, first of all that Ferrari finishes the race with both cars. And then both of them in the podium would be nicer. And if Kimi is in front of Vettel, even better. And if he finnishes in the top step, it would be the cherry on top!
Yeah..very agressive Kimi, I could say. Finally I am able to follow races , have been in insane flu/influenza/pneumonie/stomach flue winter in my family. Fingers crossed it wont continue.
Raikkonen spent most of FP1 cursing his SF16-H’s handling and general lack of grip, but the red car came into its own as the track rubbered up in FP2. His best lap wasn’t particularly clean, but it set him atop the time sheets as he overtook Vettel, who was on a different programme but backed him up with second fastest time, 0.109s adrift. However, both drivers were struggling for grip on the soft and medium tyres, so there was less bounce than one might have expected in the camp.
Kimi Raikkonen - FP1: 1:39.155, P5; FP2: 1:36.896, P1
“It has been quite a difficult day overall, I was struggling to get the grip on the tyres probably due to the wind. I was sliding a lot and this feeling was not very nice. When I put the supersofts they seemed to work better, I had more grip and this helped to have a pretty good lap. We'll see how the weather conditions turn out to be tomorrow, we'll try to make a good day and then get the maximum out of the race.”
Sebastian Vettel - FP1: 1:38.665, P3; FP2: 1:37.005, P2
“Friday is not so important in terms of position but in terms of feeling. We had a decent day and the feeling with the car was ok, but we can still improve, especially the balance. Tonight we'll have a lot of work to do, in order to get on top of everything. For sure to go for pole is always our goal, but it's only Friday so I wouldn't stress too much. This track is quite brutal on tyres, I was sliding a lot and there was a lot of degradation. I looked at Kimi's data and saw where he was faster. This afternoon we had different programmes and this is useful to make a comparison because we can learn from each other.”
This is such a nice partnership, I really wish this is the year where they can start winning.
Seeing Kimi first 2 minutes before the end of qfy was a dream. Pity for that little mistake, but Rosberg was too far anyway. In the end, better third than second at the start.
Seems the little sweet guy in front of the TV brought some luck to his dadda It´s really a shame Kimi had the mistake in S3 in the last lap, could have been pole But P3 is not bad
Nice qualifying from Kimi today, he was genuinely faster then Seb throughout the session. It is a shame he made that small mistake in the last sector, but I dont think he would have beaten Rosberg in any case. And sometimes it works well to start from P3 rather then P2.
Quote: Boudica wrote in post #14Nice qualifying from Kimi today, he was genuinely faster then Seb throughout the session. It is a shame he made that small mistake in the last sector, but I dont think he would have beaten Rosberg in any case. And sometimes it works well to start from P3 rather then P2.
It was pretty interesting that him and Seb made the exact same error..
If Kimi has been struggling at something in particular, it's been his starts. He really needs a good one to start the race tomorrow.. He needs to leapfrog Ricciardo off the line and keep Seb behind
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