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Raikkonen quietly confident and braced for season long battle
15 March, 2013 Kimi Raikkonen during FP2 in Melbourne
Lotus's assured performance in Friday practice at the Australian Grand Prix was not quite enough to raise a smile from Kimi Raikkonen, but the former world champion was pleased to be within reach of pace-setters Red Bull.
Raikkonen, third in the championship last year, and his French team mate Romain Grosjean grabbed the fourth and fifth best times behind Red Bull's sheet-topping Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber, with Mercedes's Nico Rosberg third.
'It all went okay, no problems. The car seems to be behaving very well so far, it's okay,' the quietly spoken 33-year-old Finn told reporters in the paddock at Albert Park.
'We had more or...
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