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Kimi
Raikkonen raced to his best result of the season on Sunday at the
Hungaroring while Ferrari team-mate Felipe Massa began his
recovery from injuries sustained in qualification for the
Hungarian Grand Prix.
Speaking
ahead of his debut in the World Rally Championship on Friday,
Raikkonen was keen to wish Massa as he looked back on the race
weekend.
“I
want to wish Felipe well again,” Raikkonen said. “He had an
incredible accident on last Saturday and I think that he was on
everybody’s mind in the Scuderia Ferrari and the drivers on the
grid. I know that his condition is improving constantly and I’m
glad to hear that. I really hope that he’ll be alright soon and
get back on the track.”
Ferrari
report that Massa will be taken out of intensive care today but
will remain in the AEK facility for the next few days before being
transferred elsewhere.
“It
was an absurd accident and the team had some very difficult
moments, because in the beginning we didn’t know why Felipe ran
off the track at this point," Raikkonen continued. "But
then a driver has to blind out certain things once he’s on the
track.”
Raikkonen
praised the Italian team for the recent gains in performance of
the F60 challenger. However, he also pointed out that the higher
track temperatures helped on race day and he admitted that he was
unable to challenge eventual winner Lewis Hamilton.
“We
managed to get a place on the podium, but we couldn’t really
fight for victory,” he said. “It’s strange how it always
goes well on certain tracks and some are completely the opposite:
in Germany things go always wrong for me, but in Hungary I drove
on the podium again, for the fifth time.”
Raikkonen’s
runner-up position has helped Ferrari move third in the
constructors’ championship, 1.5 points ahead of Toyota.
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