F1 Japanese GP: Raikkonen: We didn’t try to learn anything in FP2

Kimi Raikkonen says nothing was learnt by his Ferrari team in the second free practice washout for the Japanese Grand Pr♔ix in𒁃 order to save its wet weather tyres for the remainder of the race weekend.

The Finnish driver was the first to venture out on track in FP2 after the start was delayed due to the torrential rain at Suzuka but only completed an ouไt-lap as Ferrari opted to save his wet tyre allocation for the rest of the weekend with forecasts pointing to a wet FP3 and qualifying.

Raikkonen: We didn’t try to learn anything in FP2

Kimi Raikkonen ﷽says nothing was learnt by his Ferrari team in the second free practice washout for the Japanese Grand Prix in order to save its wet weather tyres for the remainder of the race weekend.

The Finnish driver was the first to venture out on track in FP2 after the start was delayed due to the torrential rain at Suzuka b♔ut only completed an out-lap as Ferrari opted to save his wet tyre allocation for the rest of the w🅘eekend with forecasts pointing to a wet FP3 and qualifying.

As a result, Raikkonen says nothing was gained from the second session but isn’t too concerned as it was a similar pa🐟ttern for his F1 rival🍸s while he was able to get good running in the dry morning session.

“We didn’t try to learn anything in FP2 because, obviously, we’re a bit limited on the tyres, so in case if it’s wet tomorrow in qualifying we’ll have to save the full wets so that’s what we’ve done,” Raikkonenꦆ said. “We expected to be a wet afternoon and we did more laps in the first practice and it was ꦍOK, everything felt fine.

“We had to try this and if tomorrow is wet we’ll do some laps in ꦓthe morning.”

Raikkonen ended FP1 fourth-fastest with a 1m 29.638s – half a second off of Ferrari team-m🌺ate and timesheet-topper Sebastian Vettel.

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