Kimi Raikkonen has congratulated fellow Finn Valtteri Bottas on winning the first race of his career at the Russian Grand Prix and played down suggestions there is a rift between the two.
Bottas beat the two Ferraris to victory in Sochi after holding off Raikkonen's teammate Sebastian Vettel in the closing stages of the race. It was the first victory for a Finnish driver in Formula One since Raikkonen won the 2013 Australian Grand Prix and means Bottas is the fifth Finn to win a race in the sport's history.
After they clashed twice on track in 2015 -- once in Russia and once in Mexico -- a perception grew in the paddock that Raikkonen and Bottas do not see eye to eye, but Raikkonen insists that is not the case.