Vettel: Charging Red Bull not a worry

Another strong result for Max Verstappen and Daniel Ricciardo has left Red Bull just six points behind second-place Ferrari in the constructors' championship, ahead of races that could favour the Milton Keynes-based team.

But Vettel says rather than be worried about what is happening behind his team, Ferrari's focus remains on chasing down Mercedes as he predicts better times ahead for his outfit.

“We want to win,” he said. “I don't really care what is going on behind, as long as they [Red Bull] are behind. It [the British GP] was arguably a strong weekend for them and not a strong weekend for us – but it is the only race this year where in terms of race [pace] we weren't able to fight them and beat them.

“I am pretty confident that things will look different again in two weeks, but that is not an excuse. We had a bad weekend and we have to make sure we address it and take action, move forward and understand why we struggled more than other people.

“Generally, everyone is improving. We are, other people are, but this weekend was a step back for us in terms of competitiveness, not necessarily a big step up for other people.”

He added: “It has been a weak race for us... but I don't think we need to turn the world upside down. We know the car we have and, if you look at the performance [in qualifying], it is more in line, although not the most competitive weekend for us.”

Vettel remains upbeat that the next race in Hungary will be better, although he knows that Ferrari has work to do in sorting reliability.

“I think it is a completely different track, different conditions,” he said. “But there are a lot of things we need to learn from this weekend.

“We failed two gearboxes, one Friday and one Saturday on my car. We recovered in qualifying but lost quite a bit of performance in today's race with conditions we faced. There is a lot of stuff to understand.”