Vettel: Through teamwork we've done a step forward

At the daunting Spa-Francorchamps circuit last Sunday, Vettel was untouchable on race day as he maximised the edge that Ferrari have found over Mercedes with their package to take a controlled and relatively comfortable victory over championship leader Lewis Hamilton.

Vettel was quick to praise the team effort, by everyone at Maranello, behind the successful push, "I think it's a huge compliment if people praise our engine because the last five years people didn't praise anything other than Mercedes engines."

"So it's good to have that change and I think it makes Maranello and all the Ferraristi and our engine department very happy. Everybody involved can be very proud."

"I think the key is not only that, the key is teamwork, the car is also working in all sorts of tracks, is efficient and I think that's the key to bringing everything together. We take it."

"We had our deficits last year, I think we had a car that worked really well on twisty tracks where a lot of downforce was required. But we were missing out on tracks where the car needs to be more efficient like here, like Silverstone usually and a couple of other tracks."

"This year the car seems to be more robust in that regard and seems to work everywhere. Needless to say we improved the package as well -- the power unit -- so on all fronts I think we've done a step forward."

"But yes, it is a key to have a car that works everywhere because that has been our weakness and I think we tackled it fairly well," added Vettel who heads to Monza trailing Hamilton by 17 points with eight rounds remaining.