Raikkonen: Small things have helped me close the gap to Vettel

Ferrari have yet to win a grand prix in 2016, and should they do so it would be hard to pick a winner between Kimi Raikkonen and Sebastian Vettel as they are pretty close in terms of race pace.

Last year it was not the case as Vettel was clearly way ahead of Raikkonen and he was asked at Monza what had caused the narrowing of the gap between the two.

The Finn responded, "It's a lot of small things. The car has to be good for making good lap times, I work with a great group of people but there are so many small things involved that even if a very small thing is not correct the lap time or the race distance is not there.

"I think we learned a lot from difficult things in the past few years and this year has been more as it should be."

It was no secret that the 2014 and 2015 cars did not suit Raikkonen's driving style and team chief Maurizio Arrivabene mandated that the 2016 car suited the style of Ferrari's last F1 champion.

Raikkonen acknowledged, "The driving has been pretty OK but I still feel we can improve more in all the details. There's a lot of details to work on to be more comfortable and know what the car will do, so we can push more."

"There's no one thing you can say you can change and that will turn things around or pull yourself around. It's a lot of small details," added Raikkonen who lies fifth in the 2016 F1 championship standings.