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Kimi
Raikkonen is not making any predictions for the Australian Grand
Prix, but the Finn is hopeful his Ferrari team will be very
competitive in the season-opener.
"It's
difficult making predictions, considering the many rule changes
this year," said Raikkonen on Monday. "Ferrari
was very competitive during the tests; but we'll do the F60's
counter-check at Melbourne, when we'll all meet in the race with
the same fuel at the same time. Only then we'll see how strong we
are and maybe we've got to wait for a couple of races to have a
clearer situation. When things go well you're having more fun, but
we still haven't raced this year, so it's really a bit too early
to say anything. We hope that everything will be the way we expect
it to be," added the 2007 world champion.
Raikkonen
endured a difficult season last year, being unable to defend his
title as he felt the car did not suit to his driving style. The
Ferrari driver admits he feels more comfortable in this year's F60
and is looking to make the most of it in Australia.
"I
can confirm that I like the F60 more than last year's car. It's
much more fun to drive and it reminds me more of the cars I was
used to some year ago," he said. "It's always a good
thing for a driver and a team to have a good start into the season,
especially when we remember how the last two seasons ended as far
as the drivers' championship is concerned: I won with one point in
2007 and my teammate was one point short in 2008. That means that
every point counts. Two years ago I won in Australia, while we had
several problems last year. Our goal is to immediately gain some
good points."
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