Many challenges in 2009 - Raikkonen

During his first appearance in front of the media in 2009, on the occasion of the Wroom event, Kimi Raikkonen spoke about the upcoming season. "There are many changes as far as technology is concerned. I think that it will be extremely interesting."

"There will be many things to set up and a lot of work for the Team. The limits as far as the tests during the winter are concerned and the fact that we can't test during the season is a very demanding challenge. If we can start with a competitive car, things will work out just fine, otherwise it could be difficult to catch up. I think that also our working style will change, at the works and on the track. Fridays will not be dedicated just to setting up the car for the race anymore, but also for trying out new solutions."

This year Raikkonen will have a new race engineer: after two years spent with the Australian Chris Dyer, now it's Andrea Stella's turn, who already worked as Michael Schumacher's and the Finn's performance engineer during Kimi's two years at Ferrari.

"After many years in the same position Chris wanted to change and now he'll work as coordinator of all the engineers working at the track and at the test sessions. I worked very well with him and Andrea, who has always been part of the group of engineers working on my car. We already worked with Andrea in his new position during the tests last December and it went very well. I heard rumours about alleged disagreements with Chris: if I hadn't worked well with him, I wouldn't have won the 2007 Championship!"