Kimi Raikkonen was disappointed to finish third in today's Malaysian Grand Prix and slip two points behind Fernando Alonso in the drivers' championship. Raikkonen kept his cool for the entire race, picked up a position when Massa lost his rag and went off track and applied severe pressure on rookie Lewis Hamilton in the final ten laps, but could not do better than third.
Fernando Alonso stormed to victory in the Malaysian Grand Prix, taking the lead in the very first corner and never looking back. Lewis Hamilton resisted pressure from Ferrari all day to finish second and complete a one-two for McLaren ahead of Kimi Raikkonen. Massa lost his pole when both mclarens passed him on the first turn and then went down to 5th when he went off track chasing Lewis.
"I'm happy to get some points but a bit disappointed how the race ended up," said Raikkonen. "The whole weekend was quite difficult but I think we needed to compromise too many things and we lost too much speed because of those things, but it was one of those weekends where we needed to do what was most important and try to get as many points as we could. We just didn't have enough speed today and couldn't do much more."
"I think we did the best we could and at least we scored important points, so we need to make everything 100 percent right at the next race," he added.
"I think we know the reasons why we were not quick in this race, but unfortunately, as I said, we were in a position where we couldn't do anything else," Raikkonen went on. "Hopefully we can turn the tables in the next race and fight for a win again."
