Kimi Raikkonen struggled in Monaco because he dislikes the track, according to Ferrari team principal Maurizio Arrivabene.
Raikkonen qualified sixth for the race, two-tenths down on team-mate Sebastian Vettel, but started 11th after taking a gearbox change penalty ahead of the race, which he later retired from following an incident at the hairpin.
The Finn made contact with the barrier and retired a few corners later after his front-wing became lodged under his car. However prior to that, he didn't have the pace to match the leaders or his team-mate, and team principal Arrivabene believes that's down to a disliking of the street circuit.
"Every driver that I’ve known from the past has a track that they don’t like," said Arrivabene. "Kimi doesn’t like Monaco even if he won once here.
"We need not to complain about Kimi but to accept that this race he was probably suffering at this track more and he will be pushing to do his best for the rest of the season."
Raikkonen described his own race as "difficult" and insists he can move on from the weekend and do "better next race".
"I was trying to drive as fast as I could but I was very slow," he admitted. "At one point, trying to downshift, I locked the rear a little bit, went straight and then I just couldn’t turn around at the hairpin. Unfortunately I touched the wall, took the front wing out and it got stuck underneath the car.
"After that I struggled to go forward and in the end I managed to get the car moving. When the team told me to park the car I was in the middle of the tunnel and couldn’t stop there, so I went through very slowly and then I parked the car.
"It has been a difficult weekend with a bad end result for me, now we keep working and improving, certainly we can do better next race."
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