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Raikkonen: Fuel mistake to blame for poor qualifying

Kimi Raikkonen's hopes for pole position were over with two minutes remaining in qualifying, his Ferrari was not fueled long enough to get another lap time in as teammate Sebastian Vettel and Lewis Hamilton continued their fight for pole. Speaking to the media after qualifying, the Finn cut a frustrated figure after poor strategy from his Ferrari team had let him down once again having looked so strong throughout the weekend up to that point. "I knew how much fuel I had, but I didn’t know we didn’t have time to refuel and go out again," Raikkonen explained. "I guess we should have stopped when we changed the tyres, we should have put more fuel and then would have...
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