LE CASTELLET, France -- Kevin Magnussen said he would have easily qualified seventh for the French Grand Prix were it not for the driving of Kimi Raikkonen in the closing moments of Q3.
In the final minutes of the session Raikkonen was engaged in a series of radio messages with the Ferrari pit wall over how to approach the last laps. The 2007 world champion had fuel for three laps and wanted to do one push lap, a cool down lap, followed by a final push lap.
Raikkonen made a mistake on his first lap but was then told to keep pushing on the second lap, only to hit traffic and have to back off again.