Raikkonen to 'try again'

Raikkonen: Trying again

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Kimi Raikkonen has said he is keen to put his disappointing 2008 campaign behind him and focus his attention instead on winning this year's World Championship.

The Finn struggled in making his title defence last year, winning just two races and only narrowly beating Robert Kubica to third place in the Drivers' Championship.

With Felipe Massa in contrast battling with Lewis Hamilton to the last corner of the last race in Brazil, Raikkonen found himself in the unusual position of supporting his team-mate's title bid.

Indeed, such was his malaise mid-season that it was even suggested that Raikkonen might be on the verge of retirement.

However, his form improved somewhat towards the end of the season and Raikkonen is now hoping that it will be a case of 'business as usual' in 2009.

Question mark

"Last year was not exactly what I wanted but that is in the past now and we will try again this year," he said at Monday's launch of the new Ferrari F60.

"Of course it is a big question mark how good the car will be because the rules have changed a lot.

"But we are very confident that the car should be very good and we will see in the next few weeks how good it is against the others.

"But for sure we'll try to win the world championships, but we'll see how it is and we'll go from there."

Raikkonen also conceded that it might take some time to adjust to the new-look car, which features a long, low front wing and a short, high rear wing in keeping with this season's new rules.

"It looks different because of the new regulations, but after looking at it for a little while you get used to it," he added.

"It looks different but it looks very good. I'm looking forward to see it run and see how it goes."

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