Kimi Raikkonen has described Ferrari's current form as "painful".

Ferrari have struggled to challenge so far this season, despite promising race wins and a title tilt in pre-season. At the German Grand Prix, the Italian team dropped behind Red Bull in the constructors' standings for the first time this season.

Despite not getting the results the team was after, Raikkonen has said the team will not give up.

"Everybody can see where we finished and it's obviously a bit painful for all of us," said Raikkonen. "But this is how it is right now and we just have to work hard and improve.

"Obviously we want to win and beat everybody, that's always the aim in racing," he continued. "We were ahead of Red Bull, now Red Bull has got ahead of us."

"Hopefully we can challenge both of them [Red Bull and Mercedes] later on but it's not going to be easy."

Formula One now enters a summer break and Raikkonen hopes that the time away from the track will allow Ferrari to close the gap.

"Hopefully we find some tools to make our car quicker," he said. "Obviously, Spa is a completely different layout to here so it might be different.

"But we have work to be done to get where we want to be. We need to improve."