Sebastian Vettel says Ferrari has more pace yet to “unleash” as he targets putting pressure on Formula 1 rivals Mercedes in Bahrain.

“We hope to be in better shape and much closer than Melbourne,” Vettel said.

“Today the result was good and we were probably on a different strategy to other people so I wouldn’t put too much attention on that. I think for tomorrow we still need to improve, especially Mercedes looks very fast.

“Today was a better day for us overall but I think certainly we need to pick up pace for tomorrow. We started off in a better place, but still I feel that we have some more potential in the car that we have to unleash for tomorrow.

“I think if we unleash that then we should be in good shape tomorrow and hopefully we can be a lot closer and put Mercedes under pressure.”