Kimi Warns Of Considerable Step Forward


By Dale Calkins
May 9 2007

Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen has warned that the Scuderia has made a considerable step forward in terms of performance. Testing last week at the Catalunya Circuit in Spain showed that new parts developed for the F2007 will provide a significant performance advantage for the Spanish Grand Prix.

Kimi Warns
Of Considerable
Step Forward

Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen has warned that the Scuderia has made a considerable step forward in terms of performance. Testing last week at the Catalunya Circuit in Spain showed that new parts developed for the F2007 will provide a significant performance advantage for the Spanish Grand Prix. This is especially encouraging as the race will be held at the afore mentioned circuit, and Ferrari completely dominated that test. This is what Kimi had to say:

"We were able to improve the F2007 considerably, because the new components work really well and the car is now much closer to my style of driving. I'm much more optimistic now: we can attack the best way possible, as my friend Markku Alen usually says. It's true that you never know how competitive you really are compared to the other teams during the test sessions; obviously for that we have to wait for the qualifying and the race; but the lap times give us some hints.

As I already said over the last weeks, we have to improve the performance in qualifying. It was not really easy for me to get all the potential out of the car on a single lap, because we never managed to prepare it at the best. Now I'm really happy about the steps forward: although it's really difficult to overtake another car, even when it's slower, it makes things a lot easier when you want to win, when you can start from the front"