Mercedes AMG Petronas Non-Executive Chairman Niki Lauda believes Kimi Raikkonen will be left behind by Scuderia Ferrari team-mate Sebastian Vettel in 2017, if he is allowed to get into any sort of groove this year. Raikkonen finished twenty-two seconds down the road from the German, who took victory at the first round of the 2017 Formula 1 season in Australia last weekend, as well as trailing both Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula One Team drivers by a large margin. Although he did not experience any specific issues during the race, the Finn put his lack lustre performance down to struggling on his opening stint with the ultra-soft tyres, which caused him to suffer from understeer, a recurring...
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