Kimi Raikkonen believes an inability to get Pirelli’s tyres working in their optimum window was behind his relative lack of pace during the qualifying shootout in Singapore. Raikkonen led the way in Friday’s second practice session, finished second to Ferrari team-mate Sebastian Vettel in FP3, and topped Q2 at Marina Bay. But an underwhelming opening effort in Q3 set the tone and while Raikkonen improved on his second attempt he was left down in fifth position. “Well obviously we finished fifth so I think it was more tricky than we expected,” he said. “But then this is what can often happen between qualifying and practice, it is always different, so that is...
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