Stoffel Vandoorne News
Former champions McLaren are ninth in the championship and 20 points adrift of eighth-placed Haas with three races remaining.
The Spaniard, who will miss next month`s Monaco Grand Prix to race the Indianapolis 500, had already made his feelings evident in radio outbursts heard by a television audience of millions around the world.
The greater speed afforded by radical rules changes showed when Raikkonen posted a best time of 1min 20.960sec for a lap at the Circuit de Catalunya circuit since 2013.
"I think it is the first weekend of the season where things went our way from start from finish, and with one more race to go tomorrow I am hoping that would continue," said an elated Narain.
The 36-year-old Briton, world champion in 2009, announced on Saturday that he was stepping out of his race seat with the team next year to be replaced by Belgian Stoffel Vandoorne.
The report claimed that the McLaren driver was not declared fully fit to take part in the coming GP.
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