Ferrari are refusing to throw in the towel in the world-title race, despite a disastrous performance at the Singapore Grand Prix.
With just three races to go, McLaren's Lewis Hamilton has a seven-point lead over Felipe Massa after the Ferrari driver finished 13th in Singapore following a series of errors.
To add injury to insult, the Scuderia dropped to second in the constructors' championship after Kimi Raikkonen crashed into the wall five laps from the end.
Team principal Stefano Domenicali says their afternoon turned into a nightmare once the safety car was introduced following Nelson Piquet's accident on lap 15.
"It was really a shame that we got this result because today is really a black day," the Italian told the Ferrari website.
"The best car (the Ferrari) is the last on the result sheet. Sometimes you have to consider that the safety car is mixing up the situation of the race, but this time it was too much. I don't want to discuss situations that may arise under safety-car conditions, because it's unpredictable.
"Sometimes they are going in the right direction and sometimes in the wrong direction."
Domenicali, though, says his team's title ambitions are still very much alive.
"The objective that we have is clear," he said.
"We have three races to go, we will approach the last three races aware that we need to finish first and second every time. We have the potential to do so, so the target is very clear.
"It is not easy, but don't forget that we have raced in very difficult situations over the last couple of years, and we were sometimes able to win, sometimes unfortunately to lose, but the motivation is still the same.
"The team is very strong; unfortunately you have the moments such as this Sunday but after two hours we were already motivated and looking forward to going to Japan to attack again."
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