Raikkonen rejects claims of Vettel bias at Ferrari

Kimi Raikkonen is rejecting claims that there's a pecking order at Ferrari, with a bias towards favouring Sebastian Vettel .

In Monaco two weeks ago, the Scuderia's strategy calls offered a clear advantage to Vettel, leading to speculation that team orders favouring the German were perhaps in use at the Italian outfit.

But Raikkonen refuted the claims, but conceded that team orders could eventually come into play later in the season.

"No, we don't have anything," the Finn told Motorpsort.com.

"But when it comes to that point in the season, when one guy has a chance and the other guy doesn't have chance, it's normal.

"It's like it's always been in any team I've been in F1. I don't have any issues with that, I think it's fair game. We fight until we can and if we have to do something else, then fair enough."

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In Monte-Carlo, Lewis Hamilton expressed his conviction after the race that his title rival not only had the upper hand on his team mate but also the biased support of his team.

"I don't know how much he knows about other teams," Raikkonen quipped.

"Whatever he thinks is fine for me. We know what we do and sometimes this kind of things happen - it's nothing unusual.

"Yes, as always [we are free to race]. We know our rules in the team, we know what the team wants and it's simple as that. We race as hard as we can.

"We always try to beat each other, one guy will be in front every time. This time it happened like that. It happens."

On the subject of his future, Raikkonen revealed that his plans have been "worked out", but he refused to dwell on the subject.

"I have [worked out my plans] but it's nothing I need to share with any of you," he said.

"It's none of your business - you keep writing anyway - so it doesn't change [anything].

"The people who need to know know. We'll see what happens.

"I have no contract for next year. There are always a lot of rumours about my contract every year. What happened in Monaco is nothing to do with my contract."

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