Kimi Raikkonen thinks Ferrari's decision to move him over for Sebastian Vettel could have been done better after he missed out on a podium in Azerbaijan.
Raikkonen moved aside to let Ferrari teammate Vettel through on lap 28 with the pair on different strategies, but also after the Finn had incurred a five-second time penalty for crossing the pit entry line earlier in the race. Though Sergio Perez eventually caught and passed Raikkonen for third in the closing laps, the Finn barely put up a fight with the time penalty to come after the race.
Raikkonen had no problem with the call being made but thinks the way it was executed cost him too much time.
"I don't disagree with the team's decision, because I had the penalty, so that story would have been the same, anyhow," Raikkonen said. "But I think we could have done in a slightly better way -- I don't know how, right now, but I just felt I lost a bit too much. I lost 2.5s in that lap and my fight was against Force India, trying to keep them five seconds away.
"I think, in the end, it didn't make an awful lot of difference. There was nothing wrong with the decision itself, it's just that we could have managed to do it with losing less from my side, but that's part of racing."
Raikkonen was frustrated with the five-second penalty, which he incurred when crossing the white line on the run down to Turn 1. The Finn believes the penalty was overly harsh and cost him a place on the podium.
Asked if it was a disappointing race, he said: "If we look exclusively to where we finished it's disappointing. Obviously I ran over the pit entry line and got penalised for that. The rule is the rule but I gained zero from it. I just missed the line and that was it.
"Obviously after that I was trying to build a gap, I was able to do it but then there was some traffic and the end result is not great. It's far from a disaster but it doesn't bring anything to me, personally. But, you know, I think we had good speed but the penalty changed the end result an awful lot."