Kimi Raikkonen dismissed Nico Rosberg's claims that Ferrari and Mercedes are "very close" ahead of the 2016 season.
Following an impressive stint in the car on Tuesday morning which saw Rosberg set the fastest time of the day, the German claimed the two rivals are closely matched and set for a battle. However, Raikkonen insists no team knows what the others are doing and would not be drawn on predictions regarding Ferrari's relative competitiveness.
"I don’t know, nobody knows," Raikkonen said. "It’s pointless to just start guessing what will happen, we will know in quite a short time. The car feels good but it’s just lap times. We don’t know what everybody is doing, we know what we are doing and we are quite happy - how it is handling, how it is running - but there are still things to be fixed and things to try, to learn.
"At this circuit in these conditions it’s complete different to when we go to Australia, so who knows. I think we have a very good package, but is it good enough? Time will tell."
When asked about Rosberg's specific comments, Raikkonen replied: "Like I said really, it’s pointless to start guessing - you can do that and other people, but I don’t see the point of that.
"I have no idea what they are doing, they don’t know what we are doing. You can see the lap times, is it close or is it not, different tyres, different this and that. Like I said, we have a good feeling, we for sure have made quite a good progress over the winter, but is it going to be enough? Who knows. I think we are going to be more or less where we want to be but we will see."
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