{"id":13952,"date":"2013-03-23T17:33:51","date_gmt":"2013-03-23T17:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=13952"},"modified":"2013-03-23T17:33:51","modified_gmt":"2013-03-23T17:33:51","slug":"disappointing-to-lose-three-places-on-the-grid-raikkonen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=13952","title":{"rendered":"Disappointing to lose three places on the grid: Raikkonen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-11371\" style=\"margin-right: 6px; margin-left: 6px; float: left;\" alt=\"kimiraokkonenendsatthirdposition\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/kimi-raokkonen.jpg\" height=\"156\" width=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/kimi-raokkonen.jpg 250w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/kimi-raokkonen-150x94.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>Sepang, Malaysia: <strong>Kimi Raikkonen<\/strong> set the seventh fastest time in a rain affected qualifying session for tomorrow\u2019s Malaysian Grand Prix at Sepang. The Finn will however start from tenth after receiving a three place grid penalty for blocking Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg. Romain Grosjean placed eleventh after the rain scuppered his Q2 lap on new tyres; forcing him to abort his final attempt.<\/p>\n<p>Talking about the practice session, <strong>Kimi Raikkonen<\/strong>, said, \u201cWe weren\u2019t quick enough on the intermediates so I don\u2019t think we could have found much more time in the wet today. For sure I wanted more but it is what it is and I hope we\u2019ll do better on Sunday. It\u2019s obviously disappointing to lose three places on the grid, but we\u2019ll have to see what happens in the race. I have no idea what the weather will do, but it will be the same for everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile <strong>Romain Grosjean<\/strong>, who finished 11 on Saturday, said, \u201cThe car felt better today for sure and we were looking good after free practice earlier this afternoon. We should have easily had both cars in the top ten, but unfortunately the skies opened at just the wrong time for me. My first run in Q2 was on scrubbed tyres and then as soon as we came in to fit the new ones it started raining, so for now they stay new. It\u2019s a shame but there\u2019s a long race ahead of us tomorrow and we now have extra sets of fresh dry tyres in our pocket so hopefully we can use them well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>James Allison<\/strong>, Technical Director, said : \u201cIt\u2019s likely to be a stern test of driver and team. It was a disappointing qualifying session for us. Rather like in Melbourne, we haven\u2019t placed our cars in the sort of positions our dry pace merits. Like last time, rain disturbed qualifying and we\u2019re not as effective in the wet as we are in the dry. That was qualifying; the race is tomorrow and we have potential for both drivers to put in strong performances.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sepang, Malaysia: Kimi Raikkonen set the seventh fastest time in a rain affected qualifying session for tomorrow\u2019s Malaysian Grand Prix at Sepang. The Finn will however start from tenth after receiving a three place grid penalty for blocking Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg. 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