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Kimi Raikkonen brushes off FP1 front wing failure

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Kimi Raikkonen is hopeful for an improvement in Hungary on Saturday after an unspectacular Friday hampered by a front wing failure in FP1.

Raikkonen was best of the rest behind Mercedes in FP1 but suffered a bizarre failure midway through the session. Coming through Turn 12, Raikkonen's front wing suddenly broke and then gave him a puncture, forcing him to return to the pits.

"It just broke suddenly," he explained. "Obviously it damaged the front wheel, the front tyre and rear tyre. I don't know what happened, it just came off."

Asked if the moment was scary, he replied: "I'm not scared. Obviously it's not ideal when the front wing breaks but we don't know the reason yet. At least I don't know, the team is looking in to it and hopefully we'll find the reason for it."

Raikkonen and team-mate Sebastian Vettel dropped behind the Red Bulls in the afternoon session but the 2007 world champion expects an improvement in time for qualifying

"It wasn't a very different Friday to normal, the feeling was pretty OK with the car so hopefully tomorrow we can get it a bit better still and then see in qualifying where we are. I think we can for sure improve for tomorrow."