Kimi Raikkonen says he has been pleasantly surprised by Ferraris form this weekend at Suzuka. The Finn has qualified third for Sundays Japanese GP, beaten by the Mercedes duo of Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton by just three tenths of a second.While Ferraris form has been much improved in Japan compared to their modest showing in Malaysia last week, Raikkonen himself is enjoying something of a resurgence. After suffering resounding defeats to team-mates Sebastian Vettel and Fernando Alonso over the last two seasons, the former world champions latest defeat of Vettel comes in the wake of three successive fourth-place finishes. Raikkonen currently heads his Scuderia colleague by seven points in the standings.Brundle doubts Vettel stayYou always feel like you want to improve here and there, Raikkonen told Sky F1. We suffered understeer here, which hurts a lot in the first sector when there are a lot of fast corners, but you always feel like if you get it perfect you can go much faster but its not often you can say l got it perfect. Watch NOW TV Watch Sky Sports for just £6.99. No contract. But it was good today although obviously we want to go better.Ferrari have selected nine sets of soft tyres, more than any other team, for this weekends event and Raikkonen believes the stability has benefited their track performance. Ted Kravitz gives his thoughts on Saturdays qualifying session at the Japanese Grand Prix. It doesnt harm, thats for sure. I mean its always more easy when you have more sets of the same compound so you can fine-tune a little bit but obviously in qualifying theres not an awful lot that you can do that is correct or not.The Finn added: Positively surprised how well the cars been behaving and how quick its been. 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