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Raikkonen will do his best to help Vettel's title challenge

Kimi Raikkonen says he has no problem playing a supportive team role if it will help his Ferrari teammate Sebastian Vettel in his quest for the 2015 title. Indeed, with German Vettel now moving into second place behind Lewis Hamilton, some suspected Ferrari-branded ‘team orders' were already in play at Sochi last Sunday. Raikkonen appeared to let the similarly red-clad Vettel past even before being asked to by Ferrari on the radio. Turun Sanomat, a Finnish newspaper, quoted Raikkonen as explaining afterwards: 'He went past me when I was not able to take the previous corners properly. The rules say that I had to let him past. That's all.' The Finn was referring to F1's actual rules,...
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