Sebastian Vettel has played down his form at Monza today, despite setting a lap 0.6s quicker than anyone else in FP2.
Vettel insisted that the performance flattered him, and that the morning session – when he was fourth behind two Mercedes and a Ferrari – was more indicative of how qualifying might play out.
“It was a good day, that’s for sure, but we’ve got our feet on the ground,” he said. “It’s still only a Friday. I don’t know, maybe the others had some problems. But regarding ourselves, it was a good day, I didn’t have any issues with the car, it felt pretty comfortable.
“I’m sure it will be very tight, as we saw in first practice. Second practice, if you look at it too much, is a bit of a distraction. I think it will be close tomorrow in qualifying, with many cars in a couple of hundredths.”
Vettel said the car wasn’t quite right yet: “Obviously you always try to optimise. There’s always two or three things, even though the car was great, there are still two or three corners where you slide a bit more than you like.
“Surely today was positive, but it’s a long weekend. We’ll see what we can improve for tomorrow. I thought the balance was pretty strong, that’s a positive, but there’s always something that you can find tune.”
Adam Cooper F1 
Those Mercs will be quick in qualifying, they’ve had the fastest car all season long in qualifying trim. I fully expect at least one Merc on the front row.
it seems pretty clear that RB have a sizeable aero advantage – even at Monza, a low downforce track. even LH was commenting after looking at the sectors that the RB were equally speedy through the middle sector despite running less wing. can’t help feeling it’s another SV whitewash with LH and FA only able to snap at his heels. wish someone had the opportunity to put him under pressure.
http://scubamonkey27.wordpress.com/2013/09/02/vettel-on-one-man-mission-to-make-f1-boring-again/