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Wednesday, 21st May 2008

Last year at a later stage of the season Raikkonen was further adrift of the top than our drivers are now, form Monaco outfit asserts...

“This year I expect that at least a handful of teams are capable of achieving top positions. The right strategy – and sometimes also luck during the race – plays a more important role at the street circuit in Monaco than at any other race track.

“A safety car deployment following an accident can favour the driver who has just re-fuelled and disadvantage the one who has not. Generally the one with the longer first stint has the better cards, however not if the safety car comes out at the wrong moment for him. For those circumstances Monaco is particularly special, as it is almost impossible to overtake.

“McLaren-Mercedes have been closer to the leader on the challenging circuits of Barcelona and Istanbul than before in Malaysia and Bahrain. Lewis is seven points behind, Heikki [Kovalainen] 21. Last year at a later time of the season Kimi Raikkonen had a greater gap to the top than our drivers now. The team has to improve further, and then everything is possible.”

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