Ferrari is happy with its race pace after focusing on evaluating tyres over longer runs during Friday practice at the Australian Grand Prix, but says the relative qualifying pace of the top teams is still unknown. Ferrari finished Friday's free practice over 0.8s off the pace of Sebastian Vettel as the two Red Bulls comfortably topped the times in the second session. However, chief designer Nikolas Tombazis said Ferrari's main focus had been on understanding the tyres rather than chasing quick times. "Red Bull obviously demonstrated to be very competitive, but we didn't have any doubts about their competitiveness because we know they are a very strong team and had a good performance...
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