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Raikkonen blames understeer for poor Australian GP showing

Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen says understeer in the opening stint was the reason behind his disappointing performance in the F1 2017 opener in Melbourne. Raikkonen was largely a bystander in the Ferrari – Mercedes battle in the Australian Grand Prix, qualifying and finishing a distant fourth. At the chequered flag, the Finn was 22 seconds adrift of his grand prix-winning teammate Sebastian Vettel – and he says that, for his race, the damage was done in the opening laps. “I think already yesterday we suffered a bit with understeer on the car - and it was a similar story in the first set of tyres,” Raikkonen said after the Australian Grand Prix. “Once we put the soft tyres, the car...
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