Kimi Raikkonen struggled to explain his start-line stall in the Italian Grand Prix, which left him last in the run to the first corner after qualifying on the front row.
“I’ve had nothing like that before. One of those things,” Raikkonen said.
“It’s not ideal…after 30 seconds we are last. But after then the race was OK, the race was good apart from the [start] issue…It’s fine to get back to fifth…but it’s a bit disappointing, not the first time unfortunately to be disappointed after a race weekend.”
The Finn also noted that the team’s telemetry data suggested the stall was his own error, but that he didn’t think he did anything different to normal.
“The data it’s [second clutch] not in the correct place but as far as what I do always I did the same things and I can’t explain why [the car stalled]. There’s only a few small chances where I could be but whatever the reason is we have to make sure that we understand it correctly 100% and make sure we make changes.”
Ferrari boss Maurizio Arrivabene believes however that TV footage shows Raikkonen struggling prior to the launch.
“If it’s a technical issue we’ll let you know, at the moment looking at the pictures of the television it looks like he was struggling a bit or messing a bit with the fingers before the [start] procedure” he said.
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