Formula 1 is in the summer break and it is time to take the interim balance sheets. On the last racing weekend, at Hungarian GP, journalists at press conferences also asked racers and team leaders a number of questions about the balance of the first half of this year's championship.
He surprised many media representatives again Kimi Raikkonen, who was very eloquent and has half a year of service with the team behind him Alfa Romeo. Popular Iceman it clearly states: "If we look at the point state on the table, then that looks pretty pathetic,”Said the Finn before the last race. On Hungaroring Alfa Romeo won seventh place with Kimi and six new points were enough to break away from the penultimate place to seventh. Alpha has only one point ahead of the must Racing Point, but is six points behind Reanultom.
Otherwise, they did not fall to the penultimate place due to poor form, but due to a double penalty in Hockenheim. Due to an allegedly incorrect clutch setting, both Raikkonen and Antonio Giovinazzi for seventh and eighth place lost ten important points. Alfa Romeo she appealed, and a hearing will be held Sept. 24. With that, they fell three places back, after Silverstone however, Alpha was even in sixth place.
"We started the season pretty well. Of course, it could have gone better in some races, ”Thus Raikkonen analyzes the initial phase of the season. Then all of a sudden nothing went anymore. From Spain, Monaka in Canada they traveled without a single point. “Then we had a pretty tough moment, maybe in four races,”He explained Raikkonen. However, Alpha returned. “Then we did the right things and got better.“This was immediately reflected in the result at Silverstone.
He has for the second half of the season Raikkonen already clear plans. “The car isn't that bad, so we can fight McLarn now,”So Raikkonen, but this time after the race on Hungary. "At first, I even had a slightly higher speed than the McLaren.”And the Finn hopes to be able to draw this picture by the end of the season. “Later towards the end of the season, new parts arrive, which should encourage good progress. Because we are a small team, it takes us a little longer than with big teams, but our new parts always work."
The current state of the scale shows that Alfa Romeo for the team McLaren it lags behind by 50 points, which is almost elusive, but that in no way reflects the actual power ratio, Raikkonen says. “I don’t think that’s the actual story of the first half of the season. Even if we weren’t fast enough from Barcelona onwards. We were pretty good before and after. In the last race we had the fastest midfield racer. We're moving in the right direction, we're doing the right things,He added Raikkonen.
