Ferrari duo: Mistakes just 'part of racing'.

Kimi Raikkonen and Felipe Massa have stressed that the errors committed in the British Grand Prix a fortnight ago - branded 'stupid' by Ferrari President Luca di Montezemolo [see separate story - click here] - are just 'part of racing', as the pair look to bounce back at Hockenheim this weekend.

A misguided tyre strategy and litany of spins saw to it that a committed Raikkonen and lacklustre Massa ultimately took the chequered flag at Silverstone in respectively fourth and 13th - or last - positions, the former being lapped once by race-winner Lewis Hamilton and the latter twice.

That disaster - coming off the back of the Scuderia's dominant French one-two at Magny-Cours - allowed McLaren-Mercedes star Hamilton to vault himself right back into title contention, with all three drivers now tied atop the drivers' standings on 48 points each as the season arrives at its midway stage.

Both Raikkonen and Massa, however, have refused to apportion any blame, and insist that they are not dwelling on the costly mistakes - provided they do not re-occur.

"Montezemolo was disappointed?" defending F1 World Champion Raikkonen was quoted as having said by Italian sports newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport. "He was not the only one.

"It's just part of racing, though. We have made some mistakes, but nothing is wrong and the championship is still open."

"That is something you can't explain," added Massa, alluding to the Maranello-based concern's Silverstone d?b?cle, "but that is part of sport. Anybody can have a bad day just as you [can] have a good day.

"That's what happened to me. I just hope it does not happen again."