Raikkonen fastest for Ferrari

While Felipe Massa showed well on the high downforce Monaco configuration of the Paul Ricard Circuit buy was unable to beat rivals Lewis Hamilton, Kimi Raikkonen was drafted in today on the longer Canadian-spec circuit for the Italian team.

Along with his fellow drivers, the Finn was running on track 1E V2, a different version of the circuit to that used over the two previous days: this one, which is over five kilometres long was selected to reproduce some characteristics of medium fast tracks like those to be tackled on the North American leg of the series in June.

Raikkonen worked on finding the best set-up, comparing the different types of tyre provided by Bridgestone and on development of some mechanical and aerodynamic components.

Raikkonen completed 50 laps with a best time of 1.28.833s, which was fastest on the day and two-tenths ahead of his nearest rival.

Raikkonen continues the test on Friday.

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