Raikkonen confident of endorsing title challenge

0 Comments | AFP, May, 2008

ISTANBUL (AFP) — Defending drivers' world champion Finn Kimi Raikkonen is confident that he and Ferrari will be competitive again in this weekend's Turkish Grand Prix despite not having tested at the circuit.

As compatriot McLaren-Mercedes new boy Heikki Kovalainen appears set to return to action just two weeks after his high-speed accident at the Circuit de Catalunya during the Spanish Grand Prix, a relaxed Raikkonen believes he can rub in his early advantage in this year's title race.

Both he and his Ferrari team-mate Brazilian Felipe Massa have good feelings about the Istanbul circuit set half an hour's drive from the city centre on the Asian side of the Bosphorous.

"It is a great track and although we have not been there to do any testing I am sure we...