Kimi Raikkonen is the most experienced racer of this year's Formula 1 Championship, which he also showed at the start GP of Portugal, where he gained as much in one lap on a slightly wet track deset places and broke through from 16th to 6th place. Finn he later managed to break through even to fifth places until he was betrayed by the tires and after a bad stop in the pits he slipped into the background and finally finished in eleventh place, which is the first one that doesn’t bring points.
41 years old racer Alfa Romeo said after the race that in the first lap he wondered what they are doing other racers. "The start of the race wasn't even that good, as I even lost one place at first, and then at one point I wondered what the others were doing," commented on the first lap of the race last Ferrari's world champion, who became famous, among other things, for his famous sentence "Leave me alone, I know what I'm doing!" at the 2013 Abu Dhabi race, where he is uncompetitive Lotus achieved unexpectedly victory.
"The first and second laps were good and the car was solidly fast the whole race, but we had some problems with the stop, and finally I lost tenth place with (worn) tires against (Sebastian) Vettl. So we didn’t take anything off the race. We need more speed, then everything will be a little easier, ” he added veteran Raikkonen, who hopes to be at the Emilia Pilgrimage GP v Imoli he started the race a little higher and finished it during winners points because, unlike all competitors, he has already raced there.
“We’ll see how it goes, we should be better than here. The race wasn’t bad, but when we start the race from the background we have to risk a lot more. It's not the best, but unfortunately we lack a little speed, ” he added.
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