Kimi Raikkonen says the wet weather hitting the United States Grand Prix would not have impacted on the team's engine plans.
Ferrari has introduced a new power unit for this weekend's race at Circuit of the Americas, with both drivers taking a ten place grid penalty as a result. With heavy rain and thunderstorms seeing little running in FP1 before FP2 was cancelled completely, when asked if Ferrari may have reconsidered its approach had it known about the weather, Raikkonen replied: “No I don’t think so.
"It was made already before the season started so we have been doing as we planned already in the first part of the year and I think it’s been the correct choice. We’ve been doing good things, it’s one of those things that we planned and we are going to stick with it and I think it’s the correct things, so whatever the conditions are doesn’t change that much.”
And Raikkonen says there remains the chance for Ferrari to take advantage of the conditions regardless of its starting position in Austin.
“It’s always more of a gamble isn’t it? So there’s always more chances for odd races so obviously it can go for you or against you. Let’s see what it brings, we are guessing now, we’ll see how tomorrow is and then what comes after that we cannot find out tomorrow.
"Hopefully we get proper conditions, at least on Sunday and we can do qualifying and the race then if not tomorrow. It’s a shame for everybody. Everybody comes here and we cannot drive because of the conditions and the spectators can’t see anything but we can’t do anything about the conditions.”
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