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Kimi laments bad weekend

Wednesday 23rd July 2008

Kimi Raikkonen believes the only good thing about the German Grand Prix is that it is over.

The Finn endured a horrible time at Hockenheim, failing to impress during qualifying and then finishing behind his main rivals for the World Championship.

Raikkonen admits he is at a loss as to why Ferrari found life so tough in Germany.

"It was certainly the most difficult weekend of the year: a horrible Friday, an even more complicated Saturday and a very bad Sunday," he told the Ferrari website.

"We never managed to find a good set up and the car had absolutely no stability. You need good grip to drive good lap times at Hockenheim, but the rear went all over the place for the whole race.

"It's true that we had some problems at the beginning of the season to set up the car as I wanted, but we never had problems like we had at Hockenheim."

The World Champion promises that Ferrari will try to get to the bottom of their problems ahead of the Hungarian Grand Prix.

"We have to check and analyse every single detail we've done during the preparations for Hockenheim and find out why we went so slowly, because there has to be something that didn't work properly," he said.

"Sometimes these things happen, when you want to improve the car. I'm confident: we'll have a F2008 that can fight for the win again soon.

"I'm seven points behind in the standings, as I was after the Canadian GP.

"The situation is quite complicated, but nothing is lost: we have to stay calm and react the way we know how to."

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