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Raikkonen: One day your luck has to run out

Kimi Raikkonen saw his title hopes dealt a major blow at the Belgian Grand Prix when he suffered his first retirement since his comeback with Lotus that began at the start of the 2012. The 2007 world champion had been fighting with Ferrari's Felipe Massa when he was forced to pull in with brake failure, seeing him slip to fourth in the F1 2013 driver's standings, leaving him over 60 points behind leader Sebastian Vettel. "I had a brake failure so there was really no point in trying to continue," said Raikkonen. "There were some brake issues at the beginning of the race but we were managing them and it was going okay until we had to retire. We've finished a lot of races and...
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