New technical issues for Kimi Räikkönen

Since the beginning of the season, qualifying has been the major weakness for Kimi Räikkönen, compromising his races. Mexico will be no exception to the rule, even though problems started as early as Saturday morning’s free practice: “This morning we had an issue with the car and had to change the engine and the gearbox. It was very tight to put everything back together, but the guys did an excellent job to have the car ready for Q1 in such a short time.”

But while the Finn was able to take to the track, not all the settings were optimized, which ended his session: However, there wasn’t enough time to adjust everything to 100%. I still had a minor issue with the brakes. In fact, they were working but locked up during a lap. Despite that, with all the penalties we have, our best option was to at least make it to Q2 and not do much afterward.

For Sebastian Vettel, still fighting to be second in the championship, the session went much better, even though he thought he could compete more with Mercedes: « To be honest, when I got up this morning and even after FP3, I expected to be a bit closer to the Mercedes in qualifying. Unfortunately, they proved to be very strong. »

The German will still try to get ahead of his fellow countryman from Mercedes: « We will do our best. We are here to fight and we have nothing to lose. Nico will be our main target. We want to keep the second place in the championship and we will do everything to achieve that. I hope our race pace will be as good as it looked yesterday. »