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Kimi
Raikkonen was in the FIA Press Conference this afternoon and the
first question he faced did not have anything to do with this
weekend, but was aimed at a completely different event he will
tackle in the summer break, namely the world championship Rally of
Finland, better known as “The Thousand Lakes.”
“I
think it will be a completely different thing to what I have done
before, “ began the Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro driver. “I have
done a few rallies but it is like club races compared to the
Finland Rally. I will just go there and have fun and hopefully we
are going to make it to the end and that would be nice
”Back
to his “day job” and Kimi explained what was different on the
F60 for this weekend. “My car has some new stuff. A new front
wing from what we had in the last race and we also have some new
floor parts and a rear wing. Hopefully it will help us. This
circuit is more like Monaco and the car seemed to be working
pretty well there, so hopefully we can have a bit better weekend
than the last one.” As to the Hungaroring itself, the Finn said
he enjoyed the challenge. “It is quite a nice circuit. For
driving it is quite a good challenge. It is not easy to get the
car right here but for the racing it can easily get a bit boring.
It is a bit more like Monaco though here it is slightly easier to
overtake but you need to be quite a bit faster than the guy in
front of you to get past him. We will see how it goes but it is a
nice place to come.” After making the most of KERS at the start
of the last race, the Ferrari man thinks it will also come in
useful here. “If you get a good run out of the last corner, then
definitely the KERS will help you. On the start it will help you
as it is quite a long straight before the first corner. Sure we
will find out some advantage with the KERS and anyhow with that we
always seem to be faster, so for us it is only a good thing.”
As
for ambitions for the rest of this tough season, Kimi was
realistic about the team/’s potential. “I think the team
target is to try to finish in third place in the championship. I
think that’s what we’re aiming for. For myself, I will try to
win as many points as I can, as many good results as we can and
that’s all we can try to do.”
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