Raikkonen: Every year I am out same story for 15 years

Speculation has begun early, despite the Finn's new found form, with paddock talk suggesting that Daniel Ricciardo will join Ferrari to reunite with former Red Bull teammate Sebastian Vettel and thus oust Raikkonen from the team.

But Raikkonen shrugged off the new round of reports claiming his demise, “It’s been the same story every year since I can remember, maybe 15 years, every year I’m out.”

“I’ll do my stuff on my side. I enjoy the racing, that’s the only reason I’m here. The rest, we’ll see how it plays out."

“In the team we know what we want to do and if all those things fit together with all our feeling we’ll see what happens. Right now all I want to do is well it’s a long season and a long way until the end of the year,” added Raikkonen