Kimi Raikk🐲onen says there are "many reasons" why Fernando Alonso ha🔯d the better of him at Ferrari this season.

Alonso comfortably beat his team-mate in 2014, finishing the year with 161 points to Raikkonen's 55﷽ and scoring both of the podiums Ferrari managed. With Alonso having finished with a 16-3 qualifying record as well, Raikkonen conceded it ha𝄹d been a tough season and said he struggled with the F14 T more than his team-mate.

"There are many reasons [for finishing so far behind Alonso], but the end result is always the same," Raikkonen told Top Gear. "It was a difficult year in many areas, and like I sai꧋d if you're fighting for anything less than the championship it's not a very good year. As a team we had a very bad year.

"Myself... I was struggling more, but there's no point to go🐎 into the details too much. Obviously we have to work hard in the coming years to improve and put Ferrari at the front where it should be."

🤡And Raikkonen acknoꦦwledged that there is a big task ahead for both himself and the team to have a more competitive 2015 season.

"꧑It's been a difficult year for the team. As Ferrari, we ex🏅pect to be at the front, winning races and fighting for championships.

"We were pretty far away from that this yearღ, so there's🎃 an awful lot of work to be done."