Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel remains realistic about his chances of winning the World Championship, but admitted he and his team will do everything they can to make the “impossible possible”.
The German’s second win of the season means he is just one win off matching Nico Rosberg and just 21 points shy of taking over second place in the standings’.
Meanwhile he also closed the gap to championship leader Lewis Hamilton on Sunday to come within 42 points – less than two race wins – of the lead.
The four-time champion admitted they are still behind in terms of pace, but he hasn’t ruled out catching the Silver Arrows before the end of the season.
“There is still a lot of work to do to catch up but you never know,” said Vettel.
“I am sure we will try absolutely everything and try to make the impossible possible.
“The best way to do that is remain calm and try to do your best and then we see where the journey takes us,” he added.
Meanwhile team principal Maurizio Arrivabene expects Ferrari’s season to be full of ups and downs as it matches or even beats Mercedes at some circuits, but falls back at others.
“They [Mercedes] are the strongest team. I recognise that. The Mercedes car is good everywhere and we are expecting to have good and bad races through the course of the season but the direction we are going is good.
“At the beginning of the season the gap was quite big, then we were able to nearly catch up, then they flew away again. The story of this season is going to be that one.”
