Kimi Raikkonen has admitted he was surprised to finish Friday third on the timesheets.
The Ferrari driver was not impressed with his car's handling, but still managed to wrestle it around the challenging Suzuka circuit in a time fast enough to beat all but the dominant Mercedes pair.
"The balance of the car was not exactly where I wanted it to be," he said. "The lap time was pretty OK but I was suffering a lot with understeer and fighting the car through the first part of the circuit. It does not feel nice."
"I was surprised a bit with the lap time. It got better in the end but it’s not where we want to be," he added. "The feeling was not very easy but the lap time was okay."
"If we can get a good feeling and the car working as we want, I think we can still improve a lot. We’ll see what happens."
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