Kimi Raikkonen: Alfa Romeo yet to maximise potential of 2019 F1 car
Kimi Raikkonen says Alfa Romeo is yet to maximise the potential of its 𓄧2019 Formula 1 car during the opening four races of the season.
The Finn has scored points at every round so far this year following his switch from Ferrari. He earned a best r🎃esult of seventh place in Bahrain and his strong performances have helped lift Alfa Romeo to its current sixth place position in the constructors’ championship, with teammate Antonio Giovinazzi yet to finish inside the top ten.
Raikkonen is convinced there is a 🉐lot more performance to be extract♏ed out of Alfa Romeo’s C38 challenger.
Kimi Raikkonen says Alfa Romeo is yet to maximise the potential of its 2019 Formula 1 car during the opening four raceꦦs of the season.
The Finn has scored points at every round so far this year following hiಞs switch from Ferrari. He earned a best result of seventh place in Bahrain and his strong performances have helped lift Alfa Romeo to its current sixth place position in the constructors’ championship, with teammate Antonio Giovinazzi yet to finish inside the top ten.
Raikkonen is convinced there is a lot more performance to be ext💫racted out of Alfa Romeo’s𒉰 C38 challenger.
“I think we’ve been getting some points at least, but I don’t think we got everything out of any of the weekends from the package,” Raikkonen admitted.
“So o🅠n that side a bit disappointing but we keep finꦜe tuning things.
“It’s a young group of pe🐓ople so we need to do things better a little bit here and there and I’m sure it will turn outꩲ to be good.”
Raikkonen recovered to 10th place in Baku having been excluded from Azerbaijan Grand Prix qualifying and forced 🌼to start from the pit lane after the front wing on his Alfa failed a deꦉflection test.
He revealed after the race that Alfa had discovered an issue with his front wing following damage picked up du🐼ring the Chinese Grand Prix, but was unable to produce a new one in time for the next race.
“First of all we didn’t plan to start from the pitlane,” Raikkonen explained. “Honestly I don’t know wh♐at’s happened.
“Last race the issue I had at the end of the race, and broke a stay bucket on the front wing and we lost the dow💫nforce, so it was probably a simila♈r thing.
“Unfortunately we knew the issue after the last race but we didn’t have time to produce aཧ new one and this is what you get. For sure it doesn’t make you faster but this is what it is.
“We got one point, it’s better than nothing, but it was difficult, just not enough grip really. I don’t think we really made the tyres work well and get the grip out of it but we did what we could and I assume next race will be easier f🐼or us.”
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