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Dirty tarmac may impact start, fears Raikkonen

 XPB Images Kimi Raikkonen clinched P6 in Saturday's qualifying session in Sepang , a mere 5 hundreds of a second behind Ferrari team mate Sebastian Vettel. Both Ferrari drivers showed consistent pace throughout the hour long session but fell short of tacking their direct Mercedes and Red Bull rivals. "It was just a bit tricky on the first lap in Q1, the first lap in Q2 was pretty OK, but it was a bit difficult to get the tyres to work there," explained the Finn. "Apart from that I had quite a smooth running.  The handling of the car has been pretty OK, obviously I was hoping for a bit more. "But tomorrow is another day. We haven’t even done one start on...
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