Ferrari driver Kimi Raikkonen has won the Monaco Grand Prix once in 15 attempts, thus he knows what it takes to win at the sport's most prestigious venue and thus revealed that outright speed is not always a vital ingredient for success on the streets of Monte-Carlo
Speaking to reporters ahead of the weekend on the Cote d'Azur, Raikkonen explained, "The whole weekend here in Monaco is a big challenge. This is such a tricky place that even if you are the fastest it doesn’t guarantee you a win."
"There are so many things that can happen, and you might not have time to react. All those things make it pretty difficult. This is a special weekend, you need to build up to it a little bit more than on a normal circuit."
"Tomorrow we’ll start with the practice, then we’ll make the car how we want it to be. The track changes a lot over practice, qualifying and the race. We need to follow these changes, making sure that we’ll have the right set-up to be able to push when it’s time to do so."
"You need to trust your car and have a good feeling. In testing, we already tried the Hypersoft compound, but obviously, the conditions in Barcelona were completely different. For sure they gave more grip."
"It’s impossible to know where we are going to be, but we’ll start tomorrow and go through the normal program. We’ll try to do well," added Raikkonen.
Last year the veteran Finn qualified on pole and finished second to teammate Sebastian Vettel in the race.
Raikkonen won once at the Principality driving the Mercedes powered McLaren MP4-20 in 2005, the last year of Formula 1's V10 engine era.
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