Time and again it was clear the C39 simply wasn’t capable of holding the higher positions even when Raikkonen contrived to take it there. However it’s doubtful that consistently starting a place or two higher up the grid would have made a massive difference to Raikkonen’s season. Raikkonen did have some good Saturdays though, notably at Circuit de Catalunya, where he took advantage of the opportunity to out-qualify one of the Renaults. Consistently improving team mate Antonio Giovinazzi narrowly won the Saturday contest between the pair and was clearly the quicker by the end of the season. Qualifying was, again, not the strongest area of his game. Raikkonen took the chequered flag outside the top 10 more often than any other driver: 14 times in the 17-race championship. Unfortunately for him the car, hamstrung by its Ferrari power unit, was seldom capable of delivering points finishes.
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