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Losing Ferrari 1-2 in Hungarian GP painful - Kimi Raikkonen

Ferrari Formula 1 driver Kimi Raikkonen said it was painful to miss out on completing a one-two result for the team in the Hungarian Grand Prix

The Finn jumped to second from fifth on the grid at the start, and was running comfortably behind team-mate Sebastian Vettel, who went on to take Ferrari's second win of the season.

But with 28 laps to go, Raikkonen experienced a problem with his engine's MGU-K and though Ferrari attempted a fix, it led to other problems and the team decided to retire the car.

It was Raikkonen's third retirement of the season and comes as his F1 future remains the subject of speculation, with Ferrari yet to decide whether to keep him for next year.

"We've had bad races, that is one more," said Raikkonen.

"Obviously it would have been much greater for the team to have a one-two, but as a team we still won with Seb so it is good for the team.

"It was a pain for us not to be one and two because we easily had the speed and everything was there, we just got done by a problem with the car.

"Unfortunately that's part of the luck for us and part of the business and part of the racing and there is nothing we could do.

"The car went wrong but we did the maximum level we could at the end of the day."

Raikkonen is now 86 points behind team-mate Sebastian Vettel but he is hopeful things will get better when the season resumes after the summer break with the Belgian Grand Prix next month.

"When you look at the end result it's not such a great thing but it looks far away from the disaster of last year," said Raikkonen.

"We've had all the issues and problems and now we keep pushing and hopefully we get a little bit of luck.

"We showed that we can do a great result, great races, but we just have to make sure we don't have any issues in part of the weekend."

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