"You push, you give it your all, but it seems as if it won't go in the right direction," he said.

"It's been a long time without a win for me and even the list of races without points is growing.

"Five times no points in the standings are really a lot: you don't have to be Einstein to understand that this is not the right way to fight for the title.

"It's not over yet, but now it will take a miracle, like one that makes lightning strike twice."

He insisted that he did not lack motivation despite having failed to win since April and amid strong hints from Ferrari that he will now have to back team-mate Felipe Massa's title bid.

"Things are definitely not going my way," said Raikkonen.

"Sometimes it happens, but that won't lower my spirit or my determination.

"I want to try to win again this season."

Both Ferrari drivers have struggled in the rain in recent races, with the team admitting that it has to work out why its car refuses to generate sufficient tyre temperature on a wet track.

That scenario left Raikkonen marooned in the midfield in Italy, although he gained several places in the closing laps as the track dried.

"I didn't lose my driving ability in the wet, but when you don't have any grip under certain circumstances, there's hardly anything you can do," he said.

"You can just try to stay on the track and hope that the situation will change, as it happened at Monza.

"At a certain point it was as if a light had been turned on and I could attack in every corner, but by then it was already too late"