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Raikkonen: I don't have much to lose

Kimi Raikkonen will do all he can to get the best performance out of his Ferrari in the final six races. The Finn is extremely motivated and realises the top drivers have more to lose at this stage of the championship. With 60 points in the championship, 20 points behind championship leader Hamilton, Raikkonen will have to be on the podium at every race to get close to a championship title.

While Raikkonen enjoyed the three-week break in his home country Finland the Ferrari team worked flat out in their factory. "The whole team is working together, to try to recuperate the gap in the points: in Maranello they didn't stop working over the last days!" said Raikkonen. "I spoke to the technicians and they told me that we have a couple of new developments in the car."

With two thirds of the championship behind him, Kimi is able to make a first summary of his experiences at Ferrari: "As I said immediately after Hungary on the occasion of the Shell event in Helsinki, there is great harmony inside the team: now I understand the difference between being a driver for Ferrari as compared to the other teams. We only concentrate on what we have to do, 100 percent. I will confront these last races in the same spirit I confronted the ones before: I'll try to win and collect as many points as possible and then we will do the maths in the classification.

"We have to give our best and hope that those who are ahead of us, have slight problems: I don't have much to lose so I can risk more than my colleagues at McLaren. Six races can seem to be only a few, but for the ones who are leading it's a lot. We were able to see that over the last weekend at the Rally of Germany, where Gronholm paid a high price for a bad day. We are optimistic for Turkey: I won the first race ever held here, which gave me a very special feeling."

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