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Raikkonen accepts blame for wrong tyre call

Kimi Raikkonen accepts that he made the wrong call when opting to make an early switch to intermediate tyres during the British Grand Prix. Raikkonen was running fifth, ahead of his Ferrari team-mate Sebastian Vettel before a late rain shower hit the Silverstone circuit. The Finn made the call to change to the intermediate Pirelli rubber, only for the rain to clear up. While the rain did return after a brief lull, Raikkonen’s tyres were ruined from running on a dry track and he was forced to settle for just eighth at the chequered flag. “In the early part of the race we were stuck behind Hulkenberg’s Force India, they were too fast on the straight and in the places you could pass,...
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