After having a race win snatched from him at the last hurdle in Hungary, Felipe Massa concedes a driver needs more than a good car and skill to win a title, he needs luck.

Having overtaken both McLaren drivers at the start of the race, the Brazilian was just three laps away from victory and a much-needed ten points in Budapest that would have handed him the lead in the Drivers’ standing. However, instead of taking the chequered flag, he found himself stranded along the pit straight when his Ferrari engine blew.

The DNF meant that rather than taking the lead in the standings from Lewis Hamilton, Massa dropped from second to third place and now trails the McLaren driver by eight points.

“To be World Champion you need to be quick, you need to be consistent, you need to work well with the team, and you need to be lucky,” the Ferrari driver said.

“I think if you are missing one of these parts maybe you cannot make it.”