Forget the Fernando/Lewis thing; the real dynamic right now is how young Felipe will deal with a newly-awakened Kimi-Matias Raikkonen. It is almost as if Kimi has been asleep for the past few months and is now rubbing his eyes and seeing what’s what. For this reason, Felipe looks a little confused. He’s used to being quicker than Kimi in qualifying and out-racing him to the flag.
He achieved half of that in France, and blamed “traffic” for the bit that didn’t work out – but at Silverstone he was way out on both counts. On coldish tyres on Friday and Saturday morning, there’s no doubt that Kimi was the quicker Ferrari driver. And that had an impact on Q3, of course.
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Kimi Raikkonen kept Ferrari on the top spot during the third and final day of testing at the Spa-Francorchamps circuit on Thursday. Raikkonen clocked a quickest lap of 1m 47.042s around the Belgian circuit, finishing over two-tenths faster than the second-placed BMW Sauber of Robert Kubica.
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