Kimi Raikkonen was not concerned by McLaren's return to competitiveness in Istanbul, and thinks Ferrari could still win all the remaining grands prix this season.


The world champion's points lead was reduced to seven points after he finished a muted third in Turkey last Sunday, while McLaren felt it could have won the race with either Lewis Hamilton or Heikki Kovalainen had it been slightly more fortunate.


But Raikkonen reckoned the unusual circumstances of the Istanbul race made it hard to compare the title contenders, with Hamilton on a different strategy, Kovalainen delayed by a puncture, and his own challenge blunted by front wing damage.


"Everybody did slightly different things, so you cannot really be a hundred percent sure," said Ferrari's Finn.

"But I still think that once we get everything running, we can win all the races.




"Every race we at least have a chance.




"For sure it's closer now than it was a few races ago but I still think we have a good car and a good package."




Ferrari has now won four of this season's five GPs, taking 1-2 finishes in Bahrain and Spain, and leads the constructors' championship by 19 points.




Raikkonen was sanguine about his disappointing Turkish GP weekend, which went wrong early on when a gearbox failure cost him significant practice mileage on Friday.


He said his eventual podium finish – achieved despite the practice problems, a scruffy qualifying lap, a slow start and a brush with Kovalainen – proved the importance of salvaging as many points as possible from disappointing races.


"We saw today that if you cannot get everything out of the car then you are going to lose some points," Raikkonen said.


"We've lost a few points now but it doesn't change too much.


"I don't worry about it too much.


"We go race by race and try to win and try to gain the points on the others, but sometimes you need to be happy with what you get and today was one of those days."