Kimi Raikkonen hopes to get more out of Lotus updates – Formula 1 news
Lotus driver Kimi Raikkonen has said that he is hoping to get more out their updates after an encouraging second free Friday practice session of the 2012 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix held at Yas Marina Circuit.
Raikkonen didn’t seem comfortable behind the wheel of his car during the first practice session and could only set 10th fastest time. However, he showed a remarkable improvement in his car during FP2 and came 6th in the timesheets.
Even though, he said that he is not completely satisfied with his car, but he is hoping to see improvements in the pace of E20 ahead of the qualifying of this weekend’s race.
“We tried the new exhaust and we spent most of time in practice on that and didn't really change car a lot apart from those new parts,” Raikkonen said. “It didn't feel very nice, the car but the lap times seems to be pretty OK still so I was bit surprised
how good time was even when it wasn't very nice to drive. Hopefully we can improve and it should mean we can get a bit more closer even than what we are today.”
“For sure we're more closer than we were say in Monza or in Spa on lap time,” he added.
Furthermore, he admired the efforts which his team has made in the season until now and asserted that he is targeting to attain good results in the remaining three grands prix of the ongoing season in order to secure a competitive position in this year’s
championship fight.
It will be interesting to note that although the Finnish driver has performed tremendously well in the season so far, but he has remained unable to score any race victory until now. Nevertheless, he has still been considered as one of the most competent
title contenders and a major threat for his rivals which mainly include, Fernando Alonso of Ferrari and Sebastian Vettel of Red Bull Racing.
Let’s see how he performs in the upcoming races and whether he will able to close the gap to the drivers in the front or not.
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