Kimi Raikkonen endured a race to forget at the Italian Grand Prix after his Alfa Romeo team fitted the wrong tyres on his Formula 1 car, resulting in a penalty. The Finn started from the pitlane after picking up gearbox damage in a hefty shunt at the Parabolica in Q3, with Alfa Romeo also opting to install a new-spec power unit. Raikkonen’s crash-strewn weekend went from bad to worse when he picked up a 10-second stop-go penalty after it emerged that the Swiss squad had put the wrong tyres on his car ahead of the race. Asked to explain the penalty, Raikkonen replied: “I don’t explain the penalty, I don’t know the rules. “Somebody fucked up somewhere but it just happened. Plus...
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