Raikkonen: When you have no luck you have no luck

Kimi Raikkonen has pointed to Lady Luck, and lack of her support, which he believes cost him an almost certain second place in the Hungarian Grand Prix.

The veteran Finn was on it all weekend, in practice faster than his Ferrari teammate Sebastian Vettel and then in the race he was sharp off the line and tucked behind leader Vettel - the pair circulating unthreatened one-two for the first half of the race and on course for the team's first on-two finish in five years.

But luck deserted Raikkonen as he started losing straight-line speed with less than half the race to go. A MGU-K issue struck and he quickly lost positions before pulling into the pits to score his third DNF of the season.

He told media afterwards, "I had so many disappointments and bad races that this is one more. Obviously it would have been much greater for the team to have had a one-two."

"As a team we still won with Seb, so it’s good for the team but it would have been quite easy to be one and two because we had quite easily the speed and everything was there, we just got undone by a problem with the car."

"It's unfortunate but it's part of racing. Sometimes when you have no luck you have no luck but we did the maximum that we could," insisted Raikkonen.

Despite a return to form at Hungaroring, the weekend is unlikely to diffuse speculation of his future at Maranello.

"It's not a question of being fair or not - it's not my decision, it's up to them and they will do what they want," Raikkonen told reporters.

"Obviously it's disappointing today but, like I said before, I've had disappointments last year and this year. I'm sure this year we have had pretty good speed all the time and we have just kept having issues or mistakes here and there and that's not shown the real results."

"But if I didn't have the speed I would not be here. I know when to stop and if I didn't have the speed or passion to do it I wouldn't come here, I would stay home. It's been far away from a disaster like last year even with all the issues, problems and mistakes."

"So we will keep pushing and hopefully we will get a little bit luck. I'm sure we can do great results and great races but we have to make sure we don’t have any issues," concluded Raikkonen who lies fifth in the world championship standings as Formula 1 heads takes a summer break.