Kimi Raikkonen was rueing a bad start as he had to be content with a fifth place finish in Sunday’s British Grand Prix at Silverstone.

The Finnish ace, from the Enstone-based Lotus team, who moved up to fifth in the standings, led home teammate Romain Grosjean in a dry race, which was won by Red Bull’s Mark Webber.

The Australian overtook Fernando Alonso four laps from home to leave the Spaniard in second, Sebastian Vettel third and Felipe Massa in fourth.

“I had a pretty okay first few corners,” he said. “But I had to avoid the cars in front and drove over the kerb on the inside of the turn, then I lost a place and was pushed wide.

“If I had stayed in front of Mark (Webber) at the start it would have been pretty good seeing where he finished, but after that Lewis (Hamilton) also got past me.

“I fought back and our car was strong, especially on the harder tyres. If I’d had a better start I could have finished much better.”

Grosjean added: “I’m happy with my race today.

“Unfortunately, I had an incident on the first corner where I was on outside of Lewis (Hamilton) and had a Force India that hit me and broke my front wing.

“That’s when I thought that our race was going to be seriously compromised, which it would have been if the rain had come.

“The team did a fantastic job in giving me a great strategy.

“I was still battling hard with the cars around me, also but trying to save the tyres.

“It became harder towards the end of the race, but I hung on to my sixth place. Kimi was too far in front of me to catch him. We both scored good points, so it’s been a good day.”

Team principal Eric Bou-llier added: “The weather conditions made for something of a lottery in qualifying, but we have had a good race. If we want to do better, we have to improve our starting positions.

“We’re still missing something to get the final piece of the jigsaw, but it’s a nice frustration to have.”