Kimi Raikkonen was not surprised by the gap 🐬to Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo during Formula 1 qualifying for the Monaco Grand Prix on Saturday after finishing four-tenths of a second back from the pole position time.

Ricciardo continued his streak of leading every session in the Monaco race weekend by topping FP3 and all three𒊎 strages of qualifying on Saturday, beating his own track record in Q3 en route to pole position.

Ferrari looked to stand the best chance of putting up a fight to Ricciardo in qualifying, with Sebastian Vettel finish✨ing two-tenths of a second behind in P2, but Raikkonen was four-tenths of a second bac༒k in P4, slipping behind Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton.

"I think we could have been more at ease with the tyres, putting in the right temperature window more easily, but it’s m꧂ore tricky here," Raikkonen said.

"It’s been like that for many years, sometimes it’s a little bit better, sometimes t💝he laps are a bit more difficult. For sure there were things to improve, but for sure if you know how to fix all of those things then you’ll obviously never have issues. It’s a normal situation.

"Here everything is all about trusting what it will happen. If you have that, then the lap time will come. It was a b💛it tricky, a b🔜it difficult and it could have been better. But it also could have been a lot worse."

Asked about the de♒ficit to Red Bull at the front of the field, Raikkone📖n said he was not overly surprised given the team's form through the weekend leading up to qualifying and its pace at other tracks.

"I think Red Bull has been in front here all weekend," Raikkonen said. "I think traditionally it has been a good track for them, and they think it’s a big surprise. But like I said earlier, if you have the riꦇght feeling here, then the lap time comes very easily.

"We know we weren’t 1🍎00 percent ha꧅ppy with things, so I’m not surprised with the time difference."