Kimi Raikkonen is a prodigiously talented driver who could/should have been World Champion in both 2003 and 2005 but for mechanical problems, and he seems to fit into the Ferrari team excellently. He seems happier, and not the miserable figure who dragged himself through the motions in his last year at McLaren in 2006.

He's in the best car, for the team who arguably get the political favour from the FIA over and above the rest of the grid, and his teammate, although good, is not nearly consistent enough to provide a major challenge for him. I don't see Raikkonen even being greatly challenged to be honest.

Felipe Massa, in what will possibly be his last year in the team as Schumacher's backstage influence will be further lessened by the movement away from the race team of Jean Todt, will pick up a couple of wins without a doubt, but he doesn’t have the consistency to finish ahead of Kimi over a whole season.

The races where things go right for him, Massa looks like a world-beater. But Kimi, like Michael Schumacher and Fernando Alonso, is far better at being able to rescue the bad weekends, and that may prove the key difference.

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