Ferrari dri🔜ver Kimi Raikkonen says the reason he only finished ninth in the inaugural Russian Grand Prix was because he his race was "compromised a lot after the start".

Raikkonen lined-up in eighth place on the grid and felt he made a strong start, before being squeezed towards the wall by one of the Toro Ross🥃o's♛.

After that he was 💮always up against it and while he said his Ferrari F14 T was good, he found it difficult to pass.

"It was a pretty normal race," he reflected following the 16t✤h round in the 2ಞ014 F1 World Championship.

"Obviously it was pretty difficult to overtake for us and after the start I got a pretty good jump off the line. But then I had to back off because of a Toro Rosso coming left more and more🦩. I had nowhere to go and lost a lot of place🎶s.

"After that it was just following people and not really having a chance on a straight line. But the car fe🔥lt okay.

"It was just slow."

Quizzed more on precisely what went wrong he added: "Obviously [as I said] my race was compromised𒊎 a lot after the start and after that it was fo༺llowing people, but not really able to attack them."

"In the end I had to fuel save for most of the race [♓too] and a lot more near the finish. The car felt good, but when you fuel save you cannot push a lot," he continued.

"I thought that the car was behaving pretty well since Saturday. [🅺But] it is the lack of speed that we have on a straight line, I think, that cost us a lot of lap time. In the end though this i🃏s the result and hopefully the next race suits us a little bit better.

"We are aware that this year 🎃it is hard to fight for the top places, but all the same, we will continue to try our best, starting in Austin [in three weeks time]. That track is very demanding and interesting and I hope I don't have the same problems ꦏI had here, so that I can aim for a good result. However, what I wish for most is that all our prayers help Jules [Bianchi] at this difficult time."