Sebastian Vettel still believes he has a shot at this year's title despite admitting that the odds are stacked against him.
Vettel is 46 points off championship leader Nico Rosberg after just six races, while Ferrari has not won a race since the Singapore Grand Prix last year. Vettel admits his chances do not look good on paper, but has no doubt he is still in the running.
"Why would I want to be here if I would just give up at this point and say there is no hope or reason to believe in the fact that we can turn the championship around?" he said. "I was believing in winning the championship last year and if you look at how competitive we were that was a good thing to do on paper -- but we're not racing on paper!
"If it's all done on paper, we'd all stay at home and we'd know in February who will be world champion -- and that would be quite boring. Everything in life would be quite boring if we had the 'on paper' approach so we do the opposite, we go racing where anything can happen.
"Two weeks ago, in Monaco, I think it was a good race, very exciting but it could have been different for us, for other people, whatever, but that is what we are going to find out in the race.
"So, to answer your question, I believe we can turn it around. I believe in the team. I know that, currently, we are not currently in the position that we want to be, in a position here that we can approach the race and be 1-2 for sure, but you never know.
"We will try our utmost, fighting very hard, and giving it everything to win this race - and the next race - and I wasn't the best in maths, but I don't have to be a genius to do the calculations to say that we can still win."
Vettel said Ferrari had fallen behind Red Bull at the last two races, but is confident it can improve over the coming races with a series of upgrades.
"I think, the last two grands prix, they managed to finish ahead of us so, if you're referring to the pure result, then yes. I think, performance-wise, I don't need to cover everything again because that is what we spoke about in Barcelona and Monaco, but I think we're still quick enough to be the first contender to Mercedes.
"As I said, some new bits here so I hope we can close the gap and we'll focus on Mercedes. I think that for everybody who is behind - the second, third, fourth, fifth team, whatever - the benchmark is always the quickest team and, currently, that is Mercedes and that is what we are aiming for."