ABU DHABI -- Daniel Ricciardo issued a thinly-veiled criticism of Kimi Raikkonen's season after being beaten to fourth place in the championship by the Ferrari driver.
Ricciardo's mid-race retirement and Raikkonen's drive to fourth at Yas Marina allowed the Finnish driver to jump five points clear in the final classification. Though Ricciardo finished comfortably ahead of his teammate Max Verstappen, Raikkonen failed to come close to replicating the title challenge of Sebastian Vettel in the other Ferrari, falling 112 points short.
When asked how he felt about losing out in the battle with the 2007 world champion, Raikkonen said: "If I'm brutally honest, with that car he should have been a long way in front in the championship.