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Raikkonen's resurgence is Ferrari's biggest problem

Kimi Raikkonen's improved form was rewarded with pole at Monza, but Sebastian Vettel's setback in the title race showed how the team's indecisiveness with the Finn could come back to haunt it

When Formula 1 races are snatched by the kind of small margins that allowed Lewis Hamilton to mug Ferrari at Monza, it becomes all too tempting to dissect the weekend in a bid to find the moment the war was won and lost.

What if Kimi Raikkonen and Sebastian Vettel hadn't battled so hard on the first lap, thereby gifting Hamilton the sniff he needed to draw alongside his world championship challenger at the second chicane and turn the race on its head?

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