Kimi Raikkonen says he’s got nobody other than himself to blame for his poor qualifying performance in China on Saturday.
The Finnish driver will start sixth, three places behind Ferrari team-mate Sebastian Vettel after a scruffy lap in Q3.
It follows his his 11th and fifth placed starts in Malaysia and Australia respectively, though he could at least blame the former on traffic and wet conditions.
This time however, he’s making no excuses and admits he’s fully to blame for his lowly starting position behind the two Williams cars.
“I am disappointed in myself to end up this way again, because it makes it much more difficult starting in that position,” he said.
“It was my fault. It isn’t a disaster but it has become a habit and I would rather get rid of it. I think for the race we have a good car and it has been behaving well all weekend.”
He’s looking forward to the race but knows that starting further back brings with it additional risk as he found out in Malaysia when contact and debris caused a puncture.
“Tomorrow is another day and I expect the car to be good in the race, but it doesn’t make life easy starting in that position.”
