Lotus driver Kimi Raikkonen has said that he is hoping to get more out their updates after an encouraging second free Friday practice session of the 2012 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix held at Yas Marina Circuit.

Raikkonen didn’t seem comfortable behind the wheel of his car during the first practice session and could only set 10th fastest time. However, he showed a remarkable improvement in his car during FP2 and came 6th in the timesheets.

Even though, he said that he is not completely satisfied with his car, but he is hoping to see improvements in the pace of E20 ahead of the qualifying of this weekend’s race.

“We tried the new exhaust and we spent most of time in practice on that and didn't really change car a lot apart from those new parts,” Raikkonen said. “It didn't feel very nice, the car but the lap times seems to be pretty OK still so I was bit surprised how good time was even when it wasn't very nice to drive. Hopefully we can improve and it should mean we can get a bit more closer even than what we are today.”

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