But German admits Mercedes remain big favourites for race four
Thursday 17 April 2014 13:48, UK
Sebastian Vettel has admitted he is not yet as comfortable with Red Bull's RB10 as he wants to be, but the German insists he welcomes the strong intra-team challenge being put up by Daniel Ricciardo.
He added: "For us [the goal is] to try to be as close as we can. Probably if we can be in the top five that's good for us where we are." And to underline just how fortunes at the front of the field have flipped since F1's winter 'rules reset', Red Bull team boss Christian Horner expressed hope that the great variable of rain - that has lingered in Shanghai so far this weekend and is currently forecast to return on Saturday - could mix things up. "I'd love to get stuck in and take the fight to Mercedes so rather than them race each other we can get in between them," Horner told Sky Sports News. "We've seen the weather change here, we won our first race here on a pouring wet Sunday afternoon back in 2009, so it would be great to have a bit of an equaliser here so we can take the fight to them."
