Seb said today that all the pressure is now on Brawn GP’s Jenson Button and Rubens Barrichello as he prepares to chase down the pair’s points advantage this weekend.

After his dominant win in Suzuka, Seb’s title hopes have been reinvigorated after cutting Button’s lead to 16 points with two races remaining.

The German though admitted he only has an outside shot at the title but it is that outsider status which takes any pressure away from him while heaping it on the title leaders.

“The only thing I can do is win, the pressure is the two in front of me,” Vettel said in Brazil. “You don’t have to be genius to know that I have to win the races and those two mess it up.

“Both races, the last two races, Singapore and Japan, obviously Singapore should have been a bit better, it is in the past now. I hope those three points (lost in Singapore through a drive-through penalty) are not missing in the end. Japan was fantastic for us, the car was great and I am looking forward to the next two races.”

The task ahead of Vettel is huge though. To keep the title fight alive he must win in Brazil with Button finishing sixth or lower. Then he must win again at the season closer in Abu Dhabi in just over a fortnight. Interlagos, despite being one of the season’s few anti-clockwise tracks, which stresses a driver’s neck in unfamiliar ways, is a track Vettel feels comfortable with.

“This circuit I think should suit us,” he asserted. “It still has a lot of corners where you need the downforce and it seems it is our strength, so we are looking forward to it, but we don’t know what to expect. For this weekend the teams with KERS will be very strong, there is steep uphill and you need the acceleration.”

For Vettel the major concern still lies with his engine and he admitted that he hopes the forecast heavy rain arrives on Friday.

“The last couple of races were good for on Friday often it was wet, with less running for everyone so we saved mileage without paying too much of a price,” he said. “Interlagos has always been a circuit that is improving quite a lot. On top of that we don’t know if it is wet or dry, we will see how much, and how many cars are running tomorrow.”
Source: Redbull.com