Kimi Raikkonen insists Ferrari is not concerned by the lap times set by Mercedes during Friday practice for the Bahrain Grand Prix.
Nico Rosberg set the pace in both practice sessions on Friday, with FP1 seeing the early championship leader more than 1.8s quicker than Raikkonen in third place. FP2 saw Jenson Button third but still more than 1.2s adrift, but Raikkonen says Ferrari is happy with the work it got through on Friday.
"We do our own stuff but you guys are always looking at the lap times and you can choose whatever you want," Raikkonen said. "We ran as we had planned and now we have to go through everything and see how was it. It worked pretty OK, we did plenty of laps and it wasn’t too bad. The lap times are one thing but we’ll see how it goes tomorrow.
"It was just practice and people could do whatever they wanted today but we had more or less an OK day. I got a bit of traffic with the super soft tyres, but apart from that it was OK."
Asked directly if the gap to Mercedes surprised him, Raikkonen replied: "I haven’t really look at what the others were doing.
"We did our own stuff and we need to go through everything to see how it went. We had a normal day and we did what we had planned."
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