Raikkonen excluded from qualifying

International Raikkonen excluded from qualifying

Raikkonen will start last on the grid in Abu Dhabi

Raikkonen will start last on the grid after qualifying result stripped

Kimi Raikkonen, who threatened to boycott the final few races after dispute with Lotus team over payment of salary finally landed in Abu Dhabi on thursday after a negotiation was made. He came back strong to qualify 5th on grid beating his team mate Romain Grosjean but things went worse for the Iceman.

Raikkonen´s Lotus failed a front floor deflection test during the post qualifying scrutiny and was excluded from the qualifying results and will have to start from the back of the grid on Sunday at Yas Marina.

“Car number 07 did not comply with Article 3.17.5 of the 2013 FIA Formula One Technical Regulations as the front floor deflected more than 5mm vertically when the load was applied vertically to it at the point which lies 100mm of car centre line on the LHS,” said a technical report by the FIA’s Formula One technical delegate, Jo Bauer.

Lotus argued that the floor broke due to contact with a kerb in the track as they did in Hungary with Grosjean´s car, but this time stewards considered it as "not a valid excuse for failing the test".

Abu Dhabi Grand Prix Starting Grid after Kimi disqualification and Bianchi penalty

Pos	Driver	Team	Q1	Q2	Q3
1	Mark Webber	Red Bull Racing–Renault	1:41.568	1:40.575	1:39.957
2	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull Racing–Renault	1:41.683	1:40.781	1:40.075
3	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	1:41.420	1:40.473	1:40.419
4	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	1:40.693	1:40.477	1:40.501
5	Nico Hulkenberg	Sauber–Ferrari	1:41.631	1:40.931	1:40.576
6	Romain Grosjean	Lotus–Renault	1:41.447	1:40.948	1:40.997
7	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	1:41.254	1:40.989	1:41.015
8	Sergio Perez	McLaren–Mercedes	1:41.687	1:40.812	1:41.068
9	Daniel Ricciardo	STR–Ferrari	1:41.884	1:40.852	1:41.111
10	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	1:41.397	1:41.093
11	Paul di Resta	Force India–Mercedes	1:41.676	1:41.133
12	Jenson Button	McLaren–Mercedes	1:41.817	1:41.200
13	Jean–Eric Vergne	STR–Ferrari	1:41.692	1:41.279
14	Pastor Maldonado	Williams–Renault	1:41.365	1:41.395
15	Valtteri Bottas	Williams–Renault	1:41.862	1:41.447
16	Esteban Gutierrez	Sauber–Ferrari	1:41.999
17	Adrian Sutil	Force India–Mercedes	1:42.051
18	Giedo van der Garde	Caterham–Renault	1:43.252
19	Charles Pic	Caterham–Renault	1:43.528
20	Max Chilton	Marussia–Cosworth	1:44.198
21	Jules Bianchi	Marussia–Cosworth	1:43.398
22	Kimi Räikkönen	Lotus–Renault	1:41.276	1:40.971	1:40.542