5 Race Predictions for Sochi, the 2018 Russian Grand Prix

Raikkonen will register a DNF

F1 Grand Prix of Russia - the Ice will melt at Sochi

The Iceman, who's registered a podium finish consecutively at Putin-land ever since the Russian Grand Prix of 2016 will undergo a mechanical fault in that underwhelming Ferrari of his.

This will be Raikkonen's second heartbreak since the fiasco witnessed earlier at Spa-Francorchamps.

What'll also not help Kimi's fortunes would be that his place on the Driver's Standings' will take a beating and he will be left with the onerous task of reclaiming the third position from Bottas that he'd yielded at the conclusion of the Singapore Grand Prix.

If not a mechanical DNF, Raikkonen will suffer from a collision which would sadly have nothing to do with him being at fault.