Spanish Grand Prix winner
Kimi Raikkonen insists that, despite having opened up a nine-point gap in the world championship and appearing to have the best car in the field at his disposal, he is not looking beyond the next round.
The Finn became the first two-time winner of the season by taking a comfortable victory at the Circuit de Catalunya, heading the second straight
Ferrari 1-2, but insists that his advantage is still to slim to begin thinking about back-to-back world titles.
"It doesn't change anything," he maintained, "It's a good advantage, but there are 14 races to go. You have one bad race and it's all gone. There's a little safety in it, in that, if you don't finish one race, it's not totally disastrous afterwards. But, so far, it's been good - we just need to keep on going and try to improve the car."
Raikkonen not only paced the opening day of the meeting, but took pole and fastest lap to go with his win, banishing the belief that the venue was not kind to him, but still insisted that the event had not been 100 per cent successful.
"I didn't get the perfect start," he smiled, "But it was good enough to stay in front and, if we had wanted, we could have gone a bit faster. But there is no point to push it when you don't need to.
"I think it was closer than we expected but, saying that, there were many safety cars so, without them, maybe it would have been looking a little bit different. It was a good day – everything was brilliant."
With his team-mate providing the only meaningful opposition on raceday, Raikkonen admitted that he had not pushed the F2008 to its limits, giving the rest of the field something to think about before heading to Turkey - a favourite of Massa's - in two weeks' time.
