Kimi Raikkonen attributed his poor qualifying performance to being unable to get Turn 1 right at the Red Bull Ring. In Q3, Raikkonen set a time that was two seconds off pole and 1.1s slower than Daniil Kvyat ahead of him. Reflecting on his afternoon, Raikkonen said he had locked up and damaged his tyres at the first corner but took advantage of Lewis Hamilton and Nico Hulkenberg failing to set lap times to at least take eighth place on the grid for the Austrian Grand Prix. “I was struggling with the first corner a lot and couldn't get it right,” Raikkonen said. “I knew I had three laps so I tried to do it again and on the last lap I just locked a wheel – the outside wheel for some...
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