He added: “I’m not 100 per cent happy. If I’m here I want to win and be
successful. We have been pretty good this year but we still haven’t won. We
still have to improve.”
Raikkonen said that he would not rule out a future move to any team, including Ferrari
with whom he parted on bad terms after they elected to buy him out of
his contract at the end of 2009 to make way for Fernando Alonso.
“Ferrari could have ended in a slightly nicer way but the people I worked with
who are still there, I had a very good relationship with them and go and
talk to them still,” Raikkonen said.
“You know, it’s not like I had some fight against somebody. I’m OK with
everybody it’s just that things could have ended in a nicer way. But it
doesn’t mean that I couldn’t go back there. You never know. I don’t know how
long I will be driving for. Maybe I don’t drive for many more years.”
Raikkonen added that he would have no problem working again with McLaren’s
executive chairman Ron Dennis. The Finn drove for the Woking team from 2002
until 2006 and had a few high-profile run-ins with Dennis, who was then team
principal.
“For sure you have a different view of many things but we still talk to each
other,” he said. “I have never had a fight with him. There is nothing wrong
with our relationship. People don’t know at all what is going on in the real
world. It is like you tell something to one guy and by the 10th person the
story is completely different. I have no issues with anybody.”
Formula One heads this week from India to Abu Dhabi where Red Bull’s Sebastian
Vettel and Alonso will continue to slug it out for the title. The German
currently leads the Spaniard by 13 points with three races left.
Hamilton, now out of contention, has remained in India following his
fourth-place finish on Sunday to do some charity work for UNICEF.