A sensational story blew straight into the newspaper headlines around the world over the weekend as Ferrari accused its employee Nigel Stepney of 'sabotaging' the team's F1 cars

Kimi Raikkonen joined the Ferrari F1 testing programme on track at Silverstone yesterday just as widening media speculation links the Finnish driver to an early exit from the team at the end of this year

Qualifying, that's the secret to a good race according to Ferrari's head of track operations Luca Baldisserri who was speaking after Sunday's United States Grand Prix at Indianapolis

Unable to keep pace with the two McLarens, Scuderia Ferrari's Felipe Massa and Kimi Raikkonen finished in third and fourth place respectively in Sunday afternoon's 73-lap United States Grand Prix

This year's qualifying sessions continue to produce some thrilling action for the spectators, but it seems the current trend is for the Ferrari F2007 to just lack that final bit of pace over a single lap

Three hours of free practice on Friday at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and it is very close at the front of the timesheets between the two leading teams in the championship, Ferrari and McLaren

"The last three races have not been what I expected, we do our best to get back to the level of the first three races," says Kimi Raikkonen, "I really want to win, because that would help us a lot"

This weekend's race in Indianapolis comes just a few days after the Canadian Grand Prix and therefore represents the busiest ten days in the motor sport calendar for Ferrari in North America

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Jean Todt was philosophical after Sunday's extraordinary Canadian Grand Prix where drivers Kimi Raikkonen and Felipe Massa scooped just fifth place in a race punctuated by four safety car periods

A tough weekend for Scuderia Ferrari in Canada ends up with only a fifth place for Kimi Raikkonen to show as Felipe Massa loses out on a strong points finish after exiting the pitlane under a red light

Kimi Raikkonen and Felipe Massa will line up fourth and fifth for today's Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal, behind the McLarens of Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso and Nick Heidfeld's BMW

Felipe Massa and Kimi Raikkonen struggled a bit on Friday when they discovered that the track surface at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve resembled that of an ice hockey ring in terms of the grip levels

After two races in Europe the F1 teams will again be operating without trucks and motorhomes as they tackle the back-to-back races in Montreal and Indianapolis as the calendar reaches North America

Kimi Raikkonen left Monaco in a decidedly disappointed frame of mind: "I had great expectations for this race, my first in the Principality in a Ferrari", stated the Finn once he had returned home

"A couple of days after the race and I'm still home in Monaco where the Grand Prix can be summed up by saying that I am really happy with my personal performance over the weekend," says Felipe Massa

Ferrari team principal Jean Todt has dismissed his team's distant third place in Sunday's Monaco Grand Prix where Felipe Massa was over a minute behind the winning McLaren Mercedes team as one-of

Felipe Massa raced to a distant third place in this afternoon's Monaco Grand Prix, the Brazilian Ferrari driver' unable to match the pace of the two McLarens on the street of Monte Carlo

Felipe Massa emerged at the end of the qualifying session in Monte Carlo this afternoon with a very positive third place, but for Kimi Raikkonen the day did not go so well, and he will start well down the grid

During yesterday's opening two practice sessions in Monte Carlo Kimi Raikkonen got closest to the Ferrari F2007’s potential with second-fastest time as the Scuderia made a solid start to proceedings

"Monte Carlo is probably the most difficult venue at which to plan strategy," says Luca Baldisserri who has overall responsibility for strategic decisions taken on the Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro pit wall

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