Sebastian Vettel: “We are not as quick as we’d like to be…”

Red Bull struggled for one-lap pace at Monza today, but both drivers insisted that the situation could be resolved with some overnight work.

Mark Webber finished FP2 in 11th place, two spots ahead of Sebastian Vettel. In the first session they were ninth and 11th respectively.

“I think overall we are not as quick as we would like to be, so still some work to do I guess,” said Vettel. “I don’t know what [Mark] did, I don’t know what the others did, but I think we are probably more competitive in race trim.

“But for sure today wasn’t as good in terms of true pace. I think you could see we were not quick enough, so a lot to do. So far we ran through our programme and we didn’t have any problems. There’s a lot of work to do but I think the tyres will be good for a single stop in the race.

“I think it looked pretty tight at the top in general. We’re a little bit away from that, we need to do a little bit of a step tomorrow, and then we’ll see.”

Webber seemed a little more upbeat about today’s progress.

“We are working hard, not quite there yet,” said the Australian. “A little bit more competitive with fuel in on the long run, but we’ve got a bit of work to do with the fuel out. We’re normally not Friday World Champions, so we’ll do a bit of work tomorrow.

“Like I say we generally find a good step on Friday. With fuel it’s pretty good, short runs, we need to look at it.”