Raikkonen defends Ferrari start

Kimi Raikkonen has played down the suggestion Ferrari’s start to the season has been poor.

The Italian team have disappointed so far with reliability issues blighting their start.

Nico Rosberg has won all four races for Mercedes and, although Ferrari have got close to winning on a couple of occasions, they have not lived up to their pre-season hype.

“If you look at how many points are left, it’s nowhere near too far from the top,” he said.

“We do our best every single race weekend and it’s always easy to say afterwards ‘if’, but this is what we have achieved so far.

“Sure, we can do a better job, we want to achieve better results.

“The aim is to be in front with two cars and we have done a good job with this car over the winter again.

“Obviously it’s not yet where we want to be – and challenge Mercedes every weekend in races.

“I don’t think we are as far as some results, if you purely looked at some results it’s not always truthful.

“There’s work to be done, but it’s far away from disaster.”

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