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Raikkonen likely to change engine

Kimi Raikkonen will most likely start next week's British Grand Prix with a fresh Ferrari engine. The Finn finished the French Grand Prix on Sunday with a broken exhaust pipe. According to Ferrari's team boss Stefano Domenicali the team will most likely change Raikkonen's engine.

In case the Ferrari team will change Raikkonen's engine it won't automaticly earn him a ten-place grid penalty for the British Grand Prix. The rules for the 2008 Formula One season say that each driver is allowed one unscheduled engine change without a penalty.

"I would say it is quite likely that we will have to replace the engine," Domenicali told f1.com after the race. "For sure, after such a heavy race from the middle to the end, it's very likely that we have to change it so we need to play the joker that allows us to do it."

However Domenicali said the team won't know for sure until later this week. `We will do the analysis later on and tomorrow but there's no rush to do anything more than eventually change it when we go to Silverstone," he said. "Unfortunately it was not possible to understand the problem and also the other difficulty is that for almost half of the race all the breaking parts were falling apart so it will also be difficult to collect all the pieces in our hands because they're somewhere around the track."

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