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Kimi Raikkonen: 'It was Seb who got all the luck'

Kimi Raikkonen has admitted that it was Sebastian Vettel who 'got all the luck' at the Australian Grand Prix after the four-time champion won the opening round of the 2018 season. Raikkonen qualified in second place and challenged Lewis Hamilton for the lead on the opening lap of the race before settling into second position, pitting on lap 18 onto the soft compound tyre in order to try and perform the undercut on Hamilton. The undercut failed, however, and Raikkonen settled into third with Vettel now out in front although he had not yet pitted. The deployment of a Virtual Saftey Car for Romain Grosjean played to Vettel's advantage and the driver pitted, emerging in the lead...
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