Vettel: Mercedes is still the favourite

Cool conditions are predicted for the Chinese Grand Prix which Vettel believes will favour Mercedes, "I've seen the forecast, but you never know. It's obviously cooler. It's a different track, so I think, honestly, the first two races have been quite different, so it's not that straightforward to predict the third one."

"I think overall if you take into account all the testing we did, then Mercedes is still the favourite going in. Certainly, we'll try to have a different outcome than that. I think if we do our homework, if we get the car balance right and we get everything together, then it should be a good weekend - I don't see why not."

Looking back on the season opener Vettel said, "I think something that happened in Australia can happen. It happened to us last year the other way around. I don't think it has anything to do with being smart. I think we know our numbers, and I think - not to go in detail too much and get lost."

"I think some of the systems we have can be a bit tricky. I think every team is aware of that. Then I think for Bahrain obviously we had a different plan going into the race, but we wanted to win, so we had to change it, and it worked out."

"I think in the position that we were we, in a way, had nothing to lose - falling back to third was the worst possible result - so we took the risk and it paid off, so I don't think, again, there was anything Mercedes could've done massively different."

"In the end, we did everything we could, we did everything right, and that was important," added Vettel who will be looking for his second win in China, to add to the triumph he enjoyed at the venue in 2009 with Red Bull.