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| GPWeek 14 Maggio 2012
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_Kimi Raikkonen was left frustrated and disappointed for the second race in a row despite notching up another podium finish, as his Lotus once again fell just short of victory.
Going into the weekend Lotus was expected to challenge strongly at the front, a feeling that was further emphasised by them locking out the second row on the grid, but come the race the E20 was unable to live with the pace of the Williams and Ferrari up front.
The second stint was particularly costly for Raikkonen, on the soft tyre, as he dropped from just three seconds behind Maldonado after his first pitstop to 18 seconds behind the Venezuelan after their second pitstops. A mediocre third stint was followed by a competitive final stint however, and the Finn closed in to within a second of Alonso at the finish. Had the race been a lap longer he may well have snatched second place.
“I’m a bit disappointed. I expected us to be a bit stronger in the race,especially at the beginning, said Kimi.”
“At the end we were very good, but it was too late. We were not fast enough and quick enough to race and that’s why we couldn’t fight for a win. But we showed in the end that we have to speed but we just have to look at what we did.
“Maybe we took the wrong choice in the first pit stop, he added, referring to” the team’s decision to opt for the soft tyre for his second stint. Maldonado and Alonso by contrast took on a set of the hard tyre, allowing them to open a healthy lead over Raikkonen.
“In the end, like I said we were not fast enough in the beginning and that cost us the race, so I was not so disappointed during the race because I saw that I couldn’t follow them at the beginning. But at the end when you catch them up almost 20 seconds then you get a bit of a disappointed feeling afterwards, when you just needed a few laps to be even able to fight for the first place.
“That’s racing and at least I scored some good points and we’re going in
the right direction.”
Team-mate Grosjean took fourth place in the sister Lotus, consolidating the team’s third place in the constructors’ championship._ Gazzetta dello Sport 14 Maggio 2012
 
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