Sebastian Vettel believes he can snatch the world crown from under Jenson Button’s nose after a Japanese Grand Prix win kept him in the title race.
“It can still be done,” he said on Sunday after Button finished in eighth.
With two races and 20 points left, Red Bull’s Vettel now sits 16 behind Brawn’s championship leader with Rubens Barrichello two ahead of the German.
Button and Barrichello’s team boss Ross Brawn said Vettel’s “great performance” at Suzuka was “perhaps a major worry”.
He added: “Jenson will be looking at both sides after today.”
And a bullish Vettel vowed to keep battling until the last moment.
“As I’ve said many times already, I will fight until the end, until the last breath,” he declared.
A third place at the penultimate race in Brazil would still see Button take his maiden world title.
But Red Bull are not giving up hope that 22-year-old Vettel can continue his dominant Japan form into the final two races and take the crown.
“He’s got nothing to lose,” said Horner. “He just has to win the next two races.” BBC Sport
Vettel said he approached Suzuka knowing it was “win or bust”.
Now he believes, as Kimi Raikkonen of Ferrari did two years ago, that anything can happen.
The Finn was 18 points behind with two races remaining, but won both to take the title away from Briton Lewis Hamilton of McLaren Mercedes.
“To be honest, this last weekend, it was pretty straightforward: win here or that’s it,” he said.
“So we took all risk and maximum attack and in the end it all paid off. Obviously now looking at the championship it looks better, but still it is a big gap.
“But we have seen, especially two years ago, anything can happen and anything is possible still. I think we have to do exactly the same in the next two races and then you know we will see what the others are doing.
“I never stopped dreaming about the title. I said before it is a great honour and a great pleasure to drive these cars many times in the season on a Sunday.
“But the most important is the challenge. We want to find out who is the best and the best over a whole season. The ultimate target is to win the championship. That is why I am here and I think why we are doing this.” AFP
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