Mark Webber can see no way back for Nico Rosberg in the fight for the 2015 drivers' title after he slipped 53 points behind team-mate Lewis Hamilton at Monza with seven rounds remaining.
Rosberg's retirement from the Italian Grand Prix saw the gap between the two almost double in one round, while Hamilton took his seventh victory of the season. Speaking to ESPN in an exclusive interview to mark the launch of his new autobiography, Webber was clear about where he stood on Rosberg's chances.
"It's over, that's all over," Webber said.
Asked if there was any way back for Rosberg, Webber added: "Win a lot, that would be awesome if he can do that. But Lewis is in a phenomenally confident window at the moment, so that's going to be hard.
"Lewis will want to wrap it up and we don't have the double points in play in Abu Dhabi this year, so it's a big, big margin. Lewis could have the odd DNF in there, which can still happen and we saw Nico have one in Italy, but that would be what is required.
"There might be some other tracks where Ferrari come into the game, so if the points are spread around a bit more that makes it even harder for Nico to pull back that gap."
Read Webber's full interview with ESPN here.