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Kimi Raikkonen says chicane error cost him 'comfortable' pole

Kimi Raikkonen believes a small mistake at the Hungaroring chicane cost him a 'comfortable' pole position as he finished behind Ferrari team-mae Sebastian Vettel on Saturday. Vettel's new lap record of 1:16.276 was good enough to hand the German pole for Sunday's race, but Raikkonen feels he lost more than the 0.168s between them after a mistake at the chicane on his flying lap. The Finn had been up by a tenth in the opening sector. 'Actually not too good, start [of the lap] was good, the end not too bad but in the chicane I braked on the outside kerb and got loose, I really threw it away there,' said Raikkonen. 'Was decent enough for second place but bit...
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