Kimi Raikkonen believes that his Lotus team will struggle at this weekend's Singapore GrandPrix. The Finnish driver had problems in second practice as he had a hydraulic issue. At the end of the session the Iceman and his team mate Romain Grosjean were 2 seconds off the pace of RedBull's Sebastian Vettel.
Kimi now fears that his Lotus team have fallen behind Ferrari, RedBull and McLaren in the development race. The team struggled for pace in SPA and Monza however Kimi finds himself in third place in the Driver's championship just a single point behind Lewis Hamilton and Lotus are in a very comfortable fourth place in the Constructor's championship.
Kimi's comments come despite the fact that the team have brought a new floor and rear wing to the GrandPrix this weekend. The team have delayed the introduction of their version of the Double DRS device that was meant to make an appearance in Monza last time out however it will not appear until the Japanese GrandPrix on 7th October.
Despite his comments, Kimi hopes that the team will be happier with how they perform during tomorrow's on track action.
Do I believe they will be challenging for the win this weekend? No unfortunately I don't think they will be however at the race it may be a different story although anything can happen in F1, the last race in Monza is a prime example of how thing's can change as both RedBull driver's failed to finish the race as did Jenson Button.
I am confident however that Kimi will be able to continue his consistent run of points scoring this weekend provided that the car's issues from today are sorted out.
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