MELBOURNE, Australia -- Despite winning the season-opening Australian Grand Prix, Sebastian Vettel says Ferrari are not as quick as they were 12 months ago when they last made the trip to Melbourne.
For the second year in succession Vettel claimed a surprise victory Down Under after Lewis Hamilton failed to capitalise on pole position. This year the German, who started third, benefited from running the ultra-soft tyre long in the first stint as he was able to leapfrog Hamilton and teammate Kimi Raikkonen in the pits when a Virtual Safety Car was deployed on lap 24 to help marshals remove Romain Grosjean's stricken Haas.