Ferrari: McLaren fight no help to us

The competition between McLaren's drivers moved up a notch in Hungary when Alonso held up Hamilton in the pitlane during qualifying.

And although the issues of that weekend resulted in McLaren deciding to hold clear the air talks with their drivers in downtown Istanbul today, rather than face the media at the track, their title rivals doubts that the issues are going to help their own cause.

Raikkonen, who is 20 points behind Hamilton in the title standings, said: "Well, it looks like they have one more day of holiday!"

When asked about his reaction to the meeting taking place away from the circuit, he said: "They have a different system in their meetings; I know exactly what they are doing there.

"We have a system (at Ferrari) where everybody is there together but I know from the past that you can have a meeting with your own people - and it is not as detailed as what we have now.

"For sure it doesn't help the team, but I don't know if it is going to hurt them. But it doesn't make anyone's life easier there."

Massa added: "Actually we don't know exactly what happens. We know it is a big competition between McLaren drivers but there is big competition between every driver.

"We know sometimes people talk too much, and sometimes people write too much so we don't know what is going on.

"If you look from the first race to now, we didn't see a big, big problem looking at the championship because of the fight with the McLaren drivers. So it is difficult to say that."

Raikkonen, who has only six races to make up the ground to Hamilton in the standings, is under no illusions about how difficult it will be for him to win the title, but he has vowed to keep pushing.

"I haven't given up," he said. "For sure it is going to be difficult, but we have been in the same position before - so it is not a new thing. But one bad race for either of us is going to change a lot. We just keep pushing and we push as long as we can. We just try to win races.

"Lewis is right now further away, so is harder to catch. But we need to try to catch both of them and that is what we try to do."