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Raikkonen hopes to make up for Monaco in Canada

The Monaco Grand Prix weekend came to a disappointing end on Sunday for Ferrari driver Kimi Raikkonen. The Fin started the race from the front row but after a drive-through penalty and a crash into Adrian Sutil lost him the lead in the Formula 1 championship.

"Sometimes things go well and sometimes they don't. But what happened to us at Monaco was something no one could have foreseen," said Raikkonen looking back at Sunday's Monaco Grand Prix. "I left Monaco empty handed. Everything that could go wrong did. But I never look back, because you can't change things of the past. Now we can only analyse the causes, which produced this outcome and we have to try, as far as we can, that these things never happen again. I'm really sorry for what happened with Sutil and I told him I was sorry. These are things that just happen in racing."

For Raikkonen it isn't over yet. He still knows there are plenty of races to come this season to make up for a bad race weekend. "This was my second bad race this year, but, as I've already said after the race at Barcelona, we all have some bad days. I built up a little advantage before the race, which enabled me to absorb, at least a bit, that negative race," he said.

"Although I didn't collect any points in the last race, thus loosing the lead in the Championships, it's not the end of the world. Last year I was in a much poorer situation. Now we have to go to Montreal con and pay back. It's a nice city and I'm convinced that we'll have a better car than last year. Traditionally Canada is a good race for Ferrari; so let's hope that we can continue this tradition. It's possible to have strange races there, too, because it's very possible that the safety car will be employed, but we're ready for every kind of situation. "

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