Kimi Raikkonen is the only midfield driver to have scored points in each of the four grands prix held so far in 2019 – but that hasn’t left the Finn completely satisfied with his and Alfa Romeo's results.
Raikkonen reunited with Sauber – now competing under the Alfa Romeo name – 18 years after he completed his rookie season for the Swiss squad.
Following an encouraging 2018 with Charles Leclerc spearheading the squad, Alfa Romeo has continued its upward trend largely courtesy of 2007 World Champion Raikkonen.
Raikkonen has taken all of Alfa Romeo’s 13 points – with a best of seventh in Bahrain – but he feels there was more potential in the C38.
“I think we’ve been getting some points at least,” Raikkonen, eighth in the standings, told Motorsport Week.
“But I don’t think we got everything out of any of the weekends from the package, so on that side it’s a bit disappointing, but we’ll keep fine tuning things.
“It’s a young group of people so we need to do things better a little bit here and there and I’m sure it will turn out to be good.”
Raikkonen’s prospects in Azerbaijan were dented by his exclusion from the results of qualifying due to excessive flexing of his front wing.
Raikkonen revealed that Alfa Romeo detected the problem in China but could not develop a replacement in time for Azerbaijan.
“At the last race I had an issue at the end of the race and broke a strake on the front wing and we lost the downforce,” he said.
“It’s probably a similar thing. We knew the issue after the last race but we didn’t have time to produce a new one and this is what you get.
“For sure it doesn’t make you faster but this is what it is. Hopefully it will be fair for everybody after this.”
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