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Raikkonen: Qualifying could've been "an awful lot worse"

Ferrari driver Kimi Raikkonen believes he "made the most" of Austrian GP qualifying by placing third on the grid, despite his deficit to teammate Sebastian Vettel. In a Q3 shoot-out where the leading drivers were all denied an opportunity to improve their initial times by late yellow flags, Raikkonen came up 0.486s short of Vettel around the Red Bull Ring. He was also beaten by the Mercedes cars of Valtteri Bottas and Lewis Hamilton, but will start right behind the Bottas/Vettel front row due to Hamilton's five-place grid penalty. Raikkonen suggested the result was good damage limitation after he struggled through Friday practice, placing sixth in FP1 and FP2. "Considering...
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