Kimi Raikkonen has called on Formula One to review the way rules are enforced during races after his battle with Max Verstappen in Hungary.
Raikkonen turned in an impressive drive in Hungary, fighting back from 14th to the top six. However, he spent much of his final stint cooped up behind Verstappen, who sternly defended on a number of occasions, including one incident at Turn 2 which saw Raikkonen lose a front wing endplate when he touched the Red Bull.
Though frustrated that Verstappen was not penalised for what he perceived to be weaving, Raikkonen thinks the incident highlights inconsistency from the stewards' room.
Explaining the incident which led to contact, he said: "For me, he moved once to the right, I decided to go left and the other car moved left. Once I decided to go and he decided to move back, I did everything I could to avoid contact...
"Once you decide to go one way you cannot move back. It was good to somehow half miss him. I lost a bit of the front wing, but there are rules but this weekend, and I'm not just talking about what happened between me and Max, in many ways why do we have rules if stewards can decide it's OK here and not OK here?
"If the rules don't apply all the time and to all the people, then we shouldn't have them."
The pair nearly collided a second time later in the race, only for Raikkonen to lock up and bail out, narrowly missing Verstappen as he moved across to defend. The Finn was less than impressed with the teenager's driving on either occasion.
"There are so many different rules these days that if you are in front, according to some rules you can move but when the guy behind makes a move, commits to something and the other guy decides to move, it's difficult to avoid hitting him. In that second case I just managed to miss him but it was two times, in my feeling, he wasn't correct."
To further emphasise his frustration about rule enforcement, Raikkonen pointed to the confusion which followed qualifying around 11 drivers not setting times within the 107% limit during Q1.
"The stewards or the people that decide how things go here, it's a joke with the rules. Yesterday's qualifying was a good example with the 107% rule, but they applied it to the guys who didn't go through from Q1 but they didn't for the rest.
"How can you suddenly have the same rule and apply it in different ways during the same session? Can someone explain me how that works? But this is Formula One these days and something has to change, because this looks bad to people outside, to you guys and I think it's not fair. There's a rule and it should apply exactly the same way, every time, to everybody."