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Kimi
Raikkonen says he is not dwelling on his disappointing 2008 season
as he aims to bounce back in this year's championship.
The
2007 world champion was unable to defend his title last season,
enduring a difficult campaign during which he was overshadowed by
Ferrari teammate Felipe Massa. Kimi was unable to feel perfectly
comfortable with the handling of the Italian squad's car for most
of the season, but the Finn admits he already has a better feeling
with this year's F60.
"It's
too early to tell. For sure the feeling has been good," Kimi
told Corriere della Sera. "You always learn from
your mistakes, but I'm not particularly interested in
understanding last year: we can't change the way things went, and
it doesn't help us to do things better now. I'm happy to talk
about what we can do this year."
The
Finn also said he's not looking for revenge following his poor
2008 season. "No, I only try to give my best," he added.
"Everyone knows what we can do and our objective is to win
the championship. There are many things that need to go well to
achieve that, and I'm not necessarily talking about luck. But I'm
not thinking of that now: I think about doing some good tests and
having a strong start to the season in the early races."
The
Ferrari driver admitted he was left pleased with how last week's
Bahrain test went. "Very well," he said of the test.
"It was a good first step, everything worked. As for slicks,
in the end I haven't found many differences compared to when we
tried them on the old car before Christmas."
Kimi,
who scored just two victories last year, said he was not looking
at what his rivals were doing during the winter. "I have no
idea how the other teams are working," he said. "So far
the laptimes have all been very close, but during testing you use
different tyres, you try things that will turn out to be good or
bad only later. But I'm neither interested nor worried about the
others. Let's think about ourselves."
The
former world champion, who has a contract with Ferrari until 2010,
insisted the Maranello squad will be the last he drives for in F1.
"We'll see whether in two years' time I'm still enjoying
myself or whether I want to do other things," Raikkonen said
of his future. "But what's certain is that Ferrari will be my
last team. Which doesn't meant that I will definitely quit in
2010..."
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