Alfa Romeo Racing Finnish driver Kimi Raikkonen admitted that the team fell well short of their pre-season expectations in the season-opening race, which took place last weekend at the Red Bull Ring. Alfa Romeo were 1.1 seconds per lap slower in Austria than they had been last year, and the slowest of all 10 teams in qualifying:
“Obviously the way it felt for us, that we were a bit better off in the race condition than in qualifying, in qualifying it’s putting together one lap and we haven’t made the best out of it. But for sure we also know we’re far from where we wanted to be in qualifying. I think it is generally we need to improve a bit here and there and try to find the best area to work with the car as quick as we can. We have some ideas this weekend, we’ll see if we can we can improve it and get a bit better.” – the 2007 Formula One world champion explained.
“You can always improve. Like I said we have some improvements in our head, what we can do purely on the set-up and how we would work on it. Obviously it’s a bit of a long time then when we did [first] running so I don’t think we maximised the potential of the car so we’ll obviously try to do that.” – Alfa Romeo Racing Finnish driver Kimi Raikkonen concluded, ahead of the second race at the Red Bull Ring in Austria.
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