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It's Vettel, not Alonso, who needs Raikkonen

Some reckon Ferrari hired Kimi Raikkonen to spur Fernando Alonso on. But JONATHAN NOBLE thinks it's Sebastian Vettel who needs the Iceman as a team-mate

Fernando Alonso's raised eyebrows said all you needed to know.

When someone asked Ferrari boss Stefano Domenicali in the pre-Singapore Grand Prix press briefing whether or not the signing of Kimi Raikkonen would help lift his current number one driver's performances and motivation, those Alonso brows betrayed exactly what he thought.

Not a chance!

However much observers have suggested that Ferrari's signing of Raikkonen for 2014 will boost Alonso by pushing him to ever-greater heights, there's another school of thought - one that the man himself agrees with, judging by his body language - that he's already doing fine without the Iceman, thanks very much.

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