'I got the bad end of the story' - Raikkonen

Kimi Raikkonen believes he "got the bad end of the story today" as he lost out to teammate Sebastian Vettel due to strategy during the Monaco Grand Prix.

Having qualified on pole position and led the first stint, Raikkonen asked when he was pitting and was brought in first by Ferrari, but rejoined in traffic. With Vettel able to run in clear air before stopping later, the championship leader jumped his teammate and led home a Ferrari one-two.

Asked about the decision to pit, Raikkonen replied: "I was called in and that's about it.

"I don't know, obviously it didn't work out very well for me. But apart from that, I have no idea. I mean... that's about as much as I can say about it right now. I got the bad end of the story today. I mean it's still second place but obviously it doesn't count a lot in my books at least.

"Obviously, this is what we got today. The end results. And obviously for the team it's a great result. Who knows? This is really the end, we can say 'if' as much as we want but it doesn't change anything."

Despite his obvious annoyance, Raikkonen stopped short of saying the team cost him victory when asked how much time he lost in traffic after his pit stop.

"We tried to figure out something that is impossible to know right now, at least from my side. No, obviously it wasn't ideal to end up behind a lapped car and obviously it is something that definitely doesn't help but the end result is what it is – but we have to see. We just finished the race and I only know what happened and that's it. Obviously I got second place but yeah, for the team good but not for myself, not so great.

"Obviously I can stop the car if I want! I'm driving it. We have a team, we work as a team and if you start... if you don't believe what you've been told or how we work, then it will get very complicated sometimes, because we always try to work as best as we can and today, as a team, we won it one-two, that happened, but as for myself it could have been better, but like I said, we just finished the race and who knows? We will talk about it and I guess there are some reasons for everything that happens in life. As a driver, I can obviously do what I want but that's not how we work as a team. Simple as that."