Haas driver Kevin Magnussen has launched an unrelenting tirade against 2007 Formula 1 champion Kimi Raikkonen after the pair were involved in an incident late in qualifying for the French GP.

A crash for Magnussen's teammate Romain Grosjean at Turn 3 caused a red flag which disrupted the Dane's first run in Q3 and meant the pressure was on for his final effort in the closing minutes.

However, he would come across the Ferrari driver on track, with Raikkonen also looking to make up for a poor first lap, but would make an error on his second flier putting him in the queue with the other cars

Speaking about the incident, Magnussen, clearly still furious, claimed the 38-year-old was doing things out of the normal.

“He f***ed all his laps, he had fuel for I don’t know how many laps, everyone else has fuel for one lap, so to begin with I thought he would box because he f***ed his lap,” he told reporters.

“Then he tries again immediately the lap after. Overtakes us, backed off again – then surely he is going to box. But then he tries again.

“So it is three laps in a row that he tried to push and it makes no sense. There is no way to predict what he is going to do.”

It was Raikkonen's next action which most annoyed the former McLaren driver though, as the pair would enter the main straight side-by-side just as Kevin started his only fast lap.

"He obviously overtakes me into Turn 1, and f***s my lap, and doesn’t even complete his lap,” he stated.

“I don’t know if what he did is against the rule, but surely he is impossible to predict.

“And also he is stopping at Turn 14, then he is pushing, then he is stopping, that is erratic driving in my mind, but I don’t know if it is in the stewards’ mind."

Clearly, it wasn't as the incident was investigated and both drivers spoken to, but no breach of the regulations was found and the Ferrari driver escaped any penalty.

The final result was Raikkonen in P6, behind both Red Bulls, while Magnussen was only P9, almost three seconds off the pole time of Lewis Hamilton and behind the Sauber of Charles Leclerc.