Lotus' Kimi Raikkonen insists he can still win the Drivers' Championship even if he fails to beat Sebastian Vettel on Sunday.

Red Bull's Vettel is the current championship leader with 157 points, with Raikkonen 41 points adrift of the German in third place.

Fernando Alonso is in second spot with 123 points on the board and earlier this week the Spaniard said he felt beating Vettel in Hungary was crucial to his chances of taking the top prize, but Raikkonen doesn't agree with the Ferrari star.

"[Beating Vettel] is what we aim for in every race; it doesn't matter if it's now or at the beginning of the year or after the break," Raikkonen is quoted as saying by ESPN. 

"If we cannot do it we cannot do it, we always try to do the best we can and hopefully we improve and get closer, but there's still half of the season to go so anything can happen."