Felipe Massa has revealed that he🦂 and Kimi Raikkonen are far from friends away from the circuit in Formula 1, adding that he expects no help from the Finn as he endeavours to defeat McLaren-Mercedes rival and world championship leader Lewis Hamilton for the 😼2008 drivers' crown.

Raikkonen may be the sport's defending 🐠title-winner, but Massa - currently 20 points ahead of his team-mate and just a single marker adrift of Hamilton in the standings with four races left to run - is irrefutably Ferrari's principal hope for glory twelve months on.

Though there have been a number of suggestions that now is the time for the Scuderia to place all of its eggs in the Brazilian's basket, M♈assa is adamant he is fighting his own battles - and that his relationship with t♏he driver of the sister F2008 is strictly professional

"Whether I do it (win the championship) or not is completely separate to what Kimi or anyone else does," the 27-year-old told German newspaper Welt am Sonntag. "I am sitting in the car; I am the one who wins races or makes mistakes. 🌄Iඣt is my game.

"We work with each other and want Ferrari to be world champion, but we are not friends; we have no private relationship. If we are together in a meeting, wꦕhen it is finished he opens the door and is gone."

Massa added that he is much closer to his previous team-mate Michael Schumacher - now a Ferrari advisor and a man he describes as being 'ꦉlike an older brother' - and💖 again underlined his conviction that he can be world champion this year.

"Otherwise I should no༺t even be sitting in a Ferrari," he quipped.