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'When it looks good it should be a pretty good car' - Kimi

Kimi Raikkonen is encouraged by the looks of the new Ferrari and is confident the team has learned its lessons from last year.

Raikkonen struggled with Ferrari in 2014, failing to finish a race higher than fourth and ending up 12th in the drivers' standings. He is hoping the lack of front end grip and feel that made life so difficult for him last year has been addressed, but without driving the car he said he could only form an initial impression from the way to looks.

"It looks nice," Raikkonen said It looks different to last year's car. From all the details, for me at least, it looks good and when it looks good it should be a pretty good car. We have to wait until we start testing to see how it really is, but the first impression is good.

"I think we learned a lot from last year with the difficulties that we had. Obviously we had some bad luck at a few races, but sometimes you have a year like that and everything seems to be a bit difficult and we understood a lot of things. Hopefully this year we can turn things around and be more strong, and as a team be more where we should be. We need to go little by little."

Raikkonen said there was no point in making predictions or setting goals at this stage.

"Obviously we want to be as strong as we can, but it's too early to say where we are going to be. As long as we do our things 100% and work as one team with two cars to push things forward and keep building from over the winter, we'll go from there and that will be the starting point. The results will come and there's no point from my side to put any goals yet. We'll start at the first test and go forward from there and see what we have and where we are. I'm sure the result will come."

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