Kimi Raikkonen thinks he will should be able to find four tenths of a second if he can get his car sorted for the rest of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix weekend.

The Lotus driver struggled with the handling of his car during practice on Friday, but admitted he was surprised by how quick he was given his problems.
Raikkonen, running the new Coanda-style exhausts, finished the second session in sixth position, some seven tenths of a second behind pace-setter Sebastian Vettel.

The Finn is hopeful he will get closer to the front if he can solve the issues that hindered him today.
"We tried the new exhausts and didn't really change the car a lot apart from those parts, and it didn't feel very nice," he said.

"But the laptime seems pretty OK still. I am a bit surprised how good the time was when it wasn't very nice to drive.

"Hopefully we can improve and it should mean that we can get a bit closer even than where we are today.

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