Vettel: Irritating, challenging and exciting

Even after four days up against their rivals at Jerez, Sebastian Vettel says he's still in the dark about where Red Bull stand in the pecking order.

Red Bull launched their new RB6 ahead of last week's Jerez test after which Vettel and his team-mate Mark Webber spent the next four days lapping the Spanish track along with their rivals.

But despite what appeared to be a solid first outing for the RB6, Vettel concedes he has no idea where the team stands compared to their rivals.

"It is still impossible to say. Due to different fuel loads, lap times can vary by two, three or four seconds," last year's runner-up told the official F1 website.

"We concentrated on ourselves and were able to make a step forward. We tried some things and pushed the car a bit more in my direction.

"When you look at the lap times, you sometimes think it's easy to say who is running on a lot of fuel or low fuel, but then people are playing around, so you might be three seconds off but still be quick when you are running with a full tank and others are not.

"It's all a bit irritating - and very challenging. You might be seconds off the pace on Friday, but are really the fastest and you won't know it until Saturday when you go to qualifying.

"We are heading into exciting times."

One of the exciting times ahead, at least according to the German press, should be the battle between Vettel and his compatriot Michael Schumacher.

The German media have even dubbed it the 'fight of the generations', however, Vettel admits he's hasn't been paying any attention to what's been said.

"We are in Spain and here the people are writing more about (Fernando) Alonso and I do not notice too much what is going on in Germany.

"Probably that is not such a bad thing."

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