Despite securing the Ferrari team’s first podium finish of the season when he crossed the line in third place at the recent Monaco Grand prix, Kimi Raikkonen has revealed that he wasn’t really all that happy with the result, simply because the car was capable of so much more.

“For sure it was the best result in the last time, but that was nothing new to me and we knew that we could arrive on a place on the top,” he explained. “When the leaders in the Championship are so far ahead in the classification, in the end it's only a victory that counts.”

That said however, Kimi knows that returning to the rostrum is a nice reward for everyone in the Maranello based squad...

“The hard work of the last weeks finally bears some fruit, which is really positive for all of us. We know that we're on the right way now: there are still some minor things to be done but sooner or later we will win. We'll show up with further improvements of the F60 in the upcoming races and we hope we can then challenge the leaders even more, in the qualifying and in the race.”

Monaco qualifying is so much more important than on other tracks and they almost carried out a perfect job missing pole by a mere 25 thousandths of a second, but not starting from pole in Monaco usually means that it's very likely you won't win.

“Furthermore the second position on the grid doesn't help on this track. You start from the dirty side of the track and whenever I found myself in this position I always lost at least one position in the field, because the tyres spin a lot at the start. In fact Rubens overtook me, which was really a shame. If I had managed to stay behind Button I think I could have easily opened a gap.”

“In the end it was difficult to fight for second position and then there was this story at the last pit stop, where we lost a couple of seconds, due to a problem with the right rear wheel. When I took up the race again I was further behind the Brazilian than before. We brought home both cars and gained some important points. There were many things at Monaco we can be satisfied with.”