Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen will start tomorrow's British Grand Prix from the front row of the grid alongside his teammate's rival for the world championship title, pole sitter Lewis Hamilton.
At the end of the challenging qualifying session, the Finnish driver emerged as the faster of the two Prancing Horses with a best time of 1”27'147, which was still over half a second down on Hamilton's best.
The changing weather conditions made qualifying ever more difficult, but Kimi's feeling with his SF70H had been improving through the weekend and all the development work carried out by the team really paid off.
“In qualifying the handling of my car was better than any other time this weekend and I was really happy with that,” he said. “Obviously we always want to finish higher, but today we got more or less what we could.”
“In Q1, with the intermediate tires on a damp track, the conditions were a bit tricky. It was very slippery, but it was not wet everywhere and the tires wore out very quickly. Luckily we did the last run at the right time and it was ok.”
“After that, the track was getting better and better. My last lap felt good, but it was still a bit tricky to know where to go because it was still a bit damp here and there; so I took it quite easily at first and then decided to push a bit more.”
“The feeling that I got with my car today was nice, so I'm looking forward to tomorrow and I hope that in the race we can improve. Usually, we are a bit stronger on Sunday”.
