Kimi Raikkonen says he won't give up on this year's title despite falling behind his rivals in recent grands prix.

Although the Lotus driver held onto third place in the Drivers' Championship in Singapore, it was a difficult outing for the Finn.

Raikkonen failed to make it into the pole position shoot-out but did recover to finish sixth. However, that meant he lost ground to Fernando Alonso as the Ferrari driver was third.

"I think we've fallen off a little bit from the guys; the others have improved," Raikkonen told ESPNF1.

"We have some small parts - new parts - here so hopefully it will get us back more where we were being before. But I think we have to try to do the best over the weekend here and hopefully then for Korea we should get bigger improvements so if that works we should improve a bit more so we'll see."

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