Kimi Raikkonen has come out in defense of Ferrari amid criticism directed at the Italian team who fell for a sucker punch which cost the Finn a podium last place time out at the Singapore Grand Prix.
The Ferrari pitwall appeared indecisive, and then went into panic, when Mercedes brought in Hamilton for a stop for fresh tyres in the late stages of the race. The Reds reacted by bringing in Raikkonen the next lap, but he emerged in fourth where he stayed until the end of the race.
Raikkonen told media at Sepang, “We all do our best and unfortunately sometimes I make mistakes, sometimes it happens on the team side. We’ve always said we work as a team and whatever the issues are, we have to learn from them and try to avoid them in the future.
“It’s as painful for me as it’s painful for them, whatever happens. Would I have stayed ahead of Lewis without the stop? Afterwards it’s always easy to say it, but I guess if we would have stayed out they would have caught us before the end of the race.
“If they would have passed us, that’s a different mater but if they did, then it wouldn’t change the final result.”
“But it’s impossible to say, because so many things could have changed. It’s not ideal but sometimes it goes like that,” mused Raikkonen who won the 2007 F1 world championship, the last time a Ferrari driver won the title..
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