"I wasn't
too happy with the third
place at the Monaco GP,"
says Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen. "For
sure it was the best result
in the last time, but that
was nothing new to me and we
knew that we could arrive on
a place on the top. When the
leaders in the Championship
are so far ahead in the
classification, in the end
it's only a victory that
counts. Being back on the
podium is a nice reward for
the whole team. The hard
work of the last weeks
finally bears some fruit,
which is really positive for
all of us.
"We know that
we're on the right way now:
there are still some minor
things to be done but sooner
or later we will win. We'll
show up with further
improvements of the F60 in
the upcoming races and we
hope we can then challenge
the leaders even more, in
the qualifying and in the
race.
"The
Monaco qualifying is so much
more important than on other
tracks and we've almost done
a perfect job: we missed the
pole by 25
thousandths of a second. Not
starting from the first
position means that it's
very likely you won't win.
Furthermore the second
position on the grid doesn't
help on this track. You
start from the dirty side of
the track and whenever I
found myself in this
position I always lost at
least one position in the
field, because the tyres
spin a lot at the start. In
fact Rubens overtook me,
which was really a shame. If
I had managed to stay behind
Button I think I could have
easily opened a gap. In the
end it was difficult to
fight for second position
and then there was this
story at the last pit stop,
where we lost a couple of
seconds, due to a problem
with the right rear wheel.
When I took up the race
again I was further behind
the Brazilian than before.
We brought home both cars
and gained some important
points. There were many
things at Monaco we can be
satisfied with."
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