Don't rule out Kimi Raikkonen after his solid finish in Bahrain
Kimi Raikkonen showed that he could be a major force in 2016 with a strong drive to second place in Bahrain, despite a bad start.
The Finn dropped to fifth on the first lap, and many observers that had he made a better getaway he could have given winner Nico Rosberg a run for his money.
“It’s not possible to say,” said Raikkonen. “Obviously this is the end result, and we had pretty OK speed in the race. Obviously a bad start, I don’t know exactly what happened, if I had some issue or did some mistake. I just got wheelspin in the end.
“I managed to hold quite a good position after such a bad start, so it was a nice thing in the first two corners, I didn’t lose too much. Then I managed to pass cars, so that was a key point – but once I was second place I was already one full straight behind Nico so, obviously not an awful lot to do after that – but we managed to catch up little-by-little, and I think we did the maximum that we could after that start.”
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