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'Impossible to predict anything' - Räikkönen

Kimi Räikkönen has said that predicting the race-by-race performances of teams has become a practically impossible task this year. The Finn, winner of the Belgian Grand Prix three races ago, never reached the top eight throughout the night race in Singapore on Sunday and knows that the remaining trio of events will be tough.

With all of Ferrari's development efforts now concentrated on the 2010 car, the Maranello team is under serious threat of losing its third position in the Constructors' Championship to rivals McLaren. "The only positive thing from the Singapore weekend was that we both finished the race without any reliability problems," 2007 Champion Räikkönen wrote on the Ferrari website.

Suzuka, scene of Round 14, was where Kimi clinched what was, for many, his greatest win to date when passing Giancarlo Fisichella's Renault outside the outside of Turn 1 on the final lap in 2005. The Espoo driver is not anticipating such opportunities this weekend, though.

"In the end the situation gets more and more difficult," he admitted. "We stopped the car's development quite some time ago while there are other teams who, for one reason or another, are improving their cars; considering the last two races were held on special circuits, it was predictable that - on a track with such high downforce, like the one in Singapore - the improvements the others brought would have a bigger impact."

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