Kimi Raikkonen is confident there is more performance to come from Alfa Romeo after a respectable start to the season.
The 2007 world champion remains the only midfield driver to have scored points in every race in 2019, his latest a comeback drive to P10 in Baku last weekend.
As a result, he is currently tied-sixth in the Drivers’ standings along with Sergio Perez and Pierre Gasly, even so, he wasn’t too happy with how his new start at Alfa has begun.
“I think we’ve been getting some points at least,” Raikkonen told Motorsport Week.
“But I don’t think we got everything out of any of the weekends from the package, so on that side, it’s a bit disappointing, but we’ll keep fine-tuning things.
“It’s a young group of people so we need to do things better a little bit here and there and I’m sure it will turn out to be good.”
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All of the former Sauber team’s points have come from the ‘Iceman’, while teammate Antonio Giovinazzi became the first driver to fall foul of engine penalties in Azerbaijan.
As a result, a strong qualifying, which saw him ahead of Kimi, was wasted as he fell back 10 places on the grid.
“I think it’s obviously not been all up to him, he’s unfortunately had a lot of issues on the car,” the Finn explained to Motorsport.com.
“Obviously, (he has) quite little experience, so any mileage you can put it’s obviously going to help him a huge amount more than on my side, so it’s been very unfortunate, but that’s racing, and obviously we always try to fix things.
“Hopefully, he gets a clean weekend and then we can judge him much easier, I think it’s very unfair now to write him off,” Raikkonen added.
“When you miss one full session in any weekend it’s going to be a nightmare to try to build back on it.”