11/03/2009
NEWS STORY
2007 World Champion Kimi Raikkonen admits he's as mystified as the rest of us when it comes to picking who's hot and who's not as we look ahead to the 2009 season opener in Melbourne in two weeks.
Despite a difficult day, when a KERS problem compromised his track time on his last day in the F60 before the Friday practice session in Australia, the Finn shared his thoughts.
"Honestly, I've no idea who could be seen as the favourite," he admitted. "There was a great equality until now between the teams and I think that we have to wait until Melbourne to know more.
"From our point of view I can say that I'm satisfied with what we've done at the test sessions during the winter. The car behaves very well and that's what's most important; we've checked that on different circuits.
"Sure, we did have some minor problem with the reliability," he admitted, "but nothing we can't resolve in the works. And then the weather sometimes didn't work out for us and we wanted to drive a couple of miles more. But it doesn't make any sense looking back.
"I can't wait for the races to start," he said. "After all, you know that I like the races best in Formula 1."