Kimi Raikkonen happier with Ferrari F1 car in German Grand Prix

The 2007 world champion started down in 12th after a mistake in qualifying on Saturday and finished a pointless 11th in Sunday's race.

The Finn blamed damage from collisions with Lewis Hamilton, Sebastian Vettel and Ferrari team-mate Fernando Alonso for ruining his race, but said he was generally much happier with the handling of the F14 T at Hockenheim.

"It continues to feel more like it should even if the results are not where we should be," Raikkonen said.

"The car felt much better here - more to my liking - I could drive it more as I wanted and it started to feel nice.

"We had a bad second run in Q2, [but] in the race the car felt good on new tyres, but the front left didn't last because of the damage on the front wing.

"On another weekend, when I get more parts, it should help and we can start turning it around and get more points in the race.

"It's not easy. Things are not going to plan. Something always goes wrong. Hopefully it will stop at some point.

"Having difficult weekends is not fun but it's part of racing. I would obviously rather have good weekends than bad results all the time, but I'm sure it's going to change.

"It's not like we've lost it, it's just a difficult moment."

All teams removed their front and rear interconnected (FRIC) suspension systems ahead of the weekend, but Raikkonen does not reckon this made a big difference to the Ferrari.

"Obviously it's hard to tell from circuit to circuit, but I don't think it makes a big difference," he added.