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Raikkonen hopes to retain better feeling of F14 T
Kimi Raikkonen does not think the summer break will have changed the fact he felt better in the Ferrari F14 T than he has done all season in Hungary.
Raikkonen's struggles since his return to Ferrari have been well-documented, especially as he has been out-performed by Fernando Alonso at every race this season. At the beginning of the year Raikkonen was struggling to find the right setting for his car but he thinks the signs from the last few races suggest he is ready to turn a corner.
"I think overall the second half can only get better," Raikkonen said. "If it gets worse, obviously it's pretty bad. These two circuits [Spa and Monza] on paper are not the strongest for us but there's been a better feeling in the car overall in the last few races. I don't think that's suddenly disappeared somewhere, we've had some new things, small things, which have improved.
"There's a much better feeling now than there was in the first races of the year because I knew those issues and couldn't do anything about it at that moment. We are making the right steps and hopefully it's going to be a bit easier in the second half."
When asked whether he can pull off another miracle result in Belgium as he did in 2009, when he won his first race of a frustrating season, Raikkonen said he is not too optimistic. "I think it is a similar story but that year we were one of the only ones to run with the KERS and in this kind of place it was a good help for us. Now it's a bit different, though it's a difficult year again. Hopefully we can have a good weekend weekend overall and start improving things.
"I expect here and Monza will not be the easiest places for us with the speed we are missing on a straight line, a very important part of those circuits. We will do our best and see where we end up."
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