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Ferrari still with no points
05 April 2009 / Results / PhotosThe Ferrari team is disappointed to have completed the first two races of the season with a failure to score any points. Kimi Räikkönen was running fifth when, running with low fuel and with his first pit stop due, the Finn's engineers elected to fit wet tyres to the car with a heavy dourpour expected; with the rain coming later than planned, Räikkönen rapidly fell back to fifteenth for the rest of the afternoon.
"That was where my race was pretty much over," Räikkönen admitted. "When the race was halted, the conditions were very difficult; there was so much water on the track and I was struggling to drive the car, even in second gear. Clearly we cannot be happy with our start to the season - in Melbourne I was the one to make a mistake and today it was the team, with the result being that we find ourselves without any points."
Team-mate Felipe Massa was as disappointed to finish ninth as he had been to qualify 16th on Saturday. "It was a chaotic race, and with these conditions it's easy to take decisions which later in turn out to be wrong. When we fitted the rain tyres, we expected heavy rain to come soon but unfortunately it was just a light shower. Therefore, I came back in to fit intermediates and immediately after that, the downpour arrived; it's a shame, as I could have managed to get into the points.
"We definitely need to analyse our mistakes and understand how they can be avoided, but I don't think it needs a revolution which is what some emotional onlookers demand - that would be wrong because, it's not a case of us suddenly becoming stupid. It's the playing field that has changed, and we must be aware of that and tackle the situation with a different approach."
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