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Raikkonen: this is not my year

It looks like reigning Formula One champion Kimi Raikkonen has given up on the championship fight. With just three races to go this season the Finn can only win the championship in theory. He is currently 27 points behind on championship leader Lewis Hamilton with just 30 points left as a maximum to score..

"It's difficult to find the right words: racing at night or during the day, this is definitely not my year," Raikkonen said. "I hit the wall when there were just a couple of laps left. True, I wasn't racing for the win, but for some very important points for the Team; and then it ended like at Spa, with another DNF. It seems as if the more we try to improve the situation the less we get in the end. At this point I can just hope for a weekend where everything goes in the right direction.

"Once again we had the right speed at Singapore, but not when it was really necessary. The fastest race laps aren't worth anything, if you don't combine them with the situation when they really count. Obviously I'm really sad about this situation. I can't explain this dark period and there's nothing I can do to change what happened. We have to look ahead, to the last three races."

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