Kimi Raikkonen believes older F1 cars were just as easy to drive

15:59, 05 Jul 2019
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Many Formula 1 pundits and drivers believe that Formula 1 cars have become too easy to drive. Lewis Hamilton has been openly critical of how easy he finds driving the current cars but not all drivers agree with him. Kimi Raikkonen believes that the cars are no easier to drive than they were 10 years ago and believes that the drivers have just adapted to the challenge.
"Is it harder now or less hard? It's impossible to say. When you start thinking 10 years back the memory plays games and you can't [remember properly]," Raikkonen said to Motorsport.com.
"Maybe it's not the same. If you asked me 10 years ago I'd say 'it's OK' because it's all about how you get used to it.
"When you come after the winter and you drive, you see whether it's hard or not because your neck is basically done after 20 laps and it feels awful.
"But the second test, you have a little bit of pain here and there and then you get used to it. It's like any sport you do, you get used to what you do and it doesn't feel hard."
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"I don't think it felt any different in the earlier days."
Formula 1 is a physical sport and perhaps it is due to the higher sophistication in training and fitness that drivers are now able to handle driving the cars better than they did a decade ago.
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