Alfa Romeo Racing Finnish driver Kimi Raikkonen couldn’t care less, but the 2007 Formula 1 world champion did score an unlikely faux-class victory in the Belgian Grand Prix. That’s not a reference to his Class C win either, because the battle between the midfield tailenders picked up a subcategory of its own at Spa: Class Ferrari.
Such was the failure of the works Ferrari team in Belgium that Sebastian Vettel and Charles Leclerc were defeated by the customer Alfa Romeo. Defeated by a customer is one thing. To lose out in a fight outside the top 10 is even worse.
But The end result mattered little to Kimi Raikkonen because he was unable to score a top 10 finish for the eighth successive event as he classified only 12th at a venue where he scored four victories in the 2000s: “No, because this is still disappointing. We don’t get points, there’s nothing positive about it. OK, when you are 16th or something and far away, it’s worse, but still…. I think the car was as good as it could be, just lacking the top speed to get the result we wanted. Other than that, the anti-stall came in at the start and I lost places, but I don’t know if that made any difference for the end result. After that the car had good speed until I got stuck behind the Toro Rosso [AlphaTauri]. I felt I had more speed than him in the middle part of the track but we never got to get a run on him. The car was pretty good on the middle sector, just not fast enough on the other two.” – he concluded.
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