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Ferrari will 'challenge the impossible' in final 2018 races

Ferrari boss Maurizio Arrivabene says the team will not give up on its 2018 championship hopes while mathematically still in the hunt.

The Japanese Grand Prix appeared to all but end Ferrari's fading hopes of winning either title this year, with a strategy blunder in qualifying followed by Sebastian Vettel spinning after an early collision with Max Verstappen early on in the race. Vettel finished sixth, meaning he is now 67 points behind Lewis Hamilton with four races remaining, while Ferrari is 78 shy of Mercedes in the constructors' championship.

Arrivabene was in a defiant mood after the result at Suzuka.