Kimi, Alonso, equally good says Todt
Finland's Raikkonen won the 2007 world championship at the end of his first attempt in a Maranello built car, but double world champion Alonso is similarly regarded as perhaps the very best on the grid at present.
Between them, moreover, Raikkonen and Spaniard Alonso are F1's only active title holders.
"I don't know if Kimi is better or worse than Alonso," Todt told the German magazine Auto Motor und Sport. "It is not for me to say — both are excellent drivers.
"Instead, the difference between them are their cars," he contended.
Alonso has been linked with a switch to Ferrari in the future, but Todt explains that Raikkonen, 28, is currently the most suitable of the pair for the Italian team.
"Of them, Kimi's character is best for us," the Frenchman confirmed, adding that he ideally would have maintained Ferrari's long and successful driving partnership with Michael Schumacher to the present day.
"Michael was the best candidate of all, but he did not want to (keep going)," Todt explained.
Todt said Schumacher, to continue as a part time advisor this season, was also offered and turned down the 'direzione sportiva' post; a job to instead be handled on the Ferrari pit wall by Stefano Domenicali in 2008 and beyond.