Kimi Raikkonen Alfa Romeo -the pace caught in Australia.Evening magazine’s F1-expert Jyrki lake grove shared his views on the start of the season.
Is it attractive to read. Alfa romeo’s return to the title garage as the F1-series made to look like the beginning, when the Kimi Raikkonen it was a Friday in both practice sessions as much as six.
And the pace still accelerating towards the end. In the morning Raikkonen difference from one run to Lewis Hamilton was still 1,217 seconds. A few hours later finn was pinch by the distance to the top of the already less than a second.
Raikkonen pace was so convincing that the man behind the left, for example, both Renault drivers as well as Ferrari shifted from Charles Leclerc .
of Course, Friday’s time should always be approached with great caution. At least where ferraris were suspected of pidettelevän still the best pace to be, and only time trial in the third part will be revealed once and for all the cards.
Still, one would assume that the Alfa Romeo spun happy season to start.
– Quite ok, Raikkonen started in a familiar way its Cmore interview.
Is there still a lot of work to do. Nothing bad, but probably can still improve, Raikkonen ran zero information.
Bottas insurance
the Situation turned to the already bewildering to the side, when the driver began on a Friday afternoon to run a race pace in long strokes. Raikkonen Alfa Romeo was, surprisingly, already the second fastest car now Mercedes.
Hard to say, of course, that drove others to the fullest or not, Raikkonen said.
maybe Not to the fullest, but something about the problems ferrari had the soft tyres. If maranello for not occurred during the night better settings, is it early season head start disappeared. The Albert Park track in addition to an excellent fit for hamilton’s driving style.
Also Valtteri Bottas appear strong, nastola kind of missed in other workouts in the garage of their friends just 0,048 seconds.
– We didn’t bring a lot of new parts here, but we were able to optimize the use of the package. The car feels much better now than in the tests, Bottas told.
– We have an idea of how much we still have to improve the time-driving, but no idea how the other teams still have the performance on offer.
“Bullshit”
the Day värikkäimmästä comments responded to Ferrari Sebastian Vettel that winter test on the basis of the supposed to be the clear winner of the favorite in Melbourne. Now as soon as the first season, after the German found himself once again in the challenger.
– What was it all bullshit to the fact that Mercedes is in bad shape? To be honest, I didn’t understand any of it. After all, this was a small surprise, Vettel began.
the Mercedes is just in his class. I don’t know if that was just our problem, but I think they look really strong.
Traditionally, the Friday workout which is no longer of any importance, when we start to share the starting screen. Mercedes return to your favorite position is, in itself, should at least surprise, because the whole F1 turbo hybrid time the garage has proved itself to be most efficient just to develop the car.
Kimi Raikkonen was in both Friday practice sixth fastest. AOP
