Between the lines

Kimi Raikkonen

Motor Racing - Formula One World Championship - Malaysian Grand Prix - Preparations - Sepang, Malaysia

The Question: Kimi, obviously you had some problems in Australia towards the end of the race but the pace all weekend was good and you were close to your team-mate Vettel throughout, so it looks like it’s going to be a good in-house battle between the two of you. How do you see it?

What Kimi said: 

KR: Obviously we are in a much better position than we were say even at the end of last year so in that way it's a nice place to be but obviously we still have to improve quite a bit. We want to be in front and we still don't have the speed exactly, at least in qualifying, to be there. In the race I think we are a bit stronger compared to Mercedes. But I think it will be a fun year, obviously not an ideal start of the year and we got some damage from the start and had those issues in the pit stops but you know it can happen sometimes but at least we had pretty good speed. I’m sure we’re going to have strong races and good battles but like I said we still have some work to do to be absolutely where we want to be but we have done a good job so far.

What he might have meant:

KR: What? Me? I don’t care. Ask Fernando another question. That totally worked for me last year, getting him to do all the talking. In fact why do you need me here at all? It’s not like anyone’s got anything to ask any of the rest of us, especially the three guys at the back. Can I go now?