Sebastian Vettel admits Ferrari did not leave the “strongest impression” with its performance 𓄧during pre-season testing but insists he is “not worried” heading into the 2020 Formula 1 campaign.

Ferrari largely stayed away from the top of the timesheets throughout the two weeks of testing at Barcelona, aside from Vette🅘l topping the penultimate day of running.

Instead, the Italian squad focused its winter programme on gaining a better understanding of its latest SF1000 challenger and prioritising reliability, f𒊎ollowing its struggles to get to grips with its inconsistent 2019 car.

“I think if you look at ൲the big teams then nobody is trying to do anything fancy,” ൩Vettel explained.

“You try to simulate every little bit of everything and everybody is using all tyres so naturally you go faster on the softer tyres than the haꦑrder tyres but most of the work is done in the background and you don’t see it.

“I think it is about avꦯerage fuel load that you expect in terms of power what you expect is also hard to read so therefore I’m cur𓆉ious to see where we are in Australia.

“It is not🌠 like we leave the strongest impression right now but I am not worried so if it is so then it is like this so we will♐ know in a couple of weeks’ time and not now.”

Much of Ferrari’s focus with its “extreme” 2020 concept has been centred around trying to find more downforce a🐻nd more performance in slow-speed corners, which proved to be an area of weakness last year.

But Vettel says the search for cornering gains comes with a trade-off in terms of straiꦉght-line speed, resulting in Ferꦏrari’s 2020 challenger being more “draggy” on the straights.

“I think compared to last year in sector t🤡hree the car feels better but we also know it comes with a trade,” he added.

“We are slower and still have some work to do on the straights as we are a bit draggy but 🤪we are aware of that and as we’ꦿve said the objective was to put more downforce on the car.

“So Sector 3 does feel better but gettiཧng o😼ut of Sector 3 and down to Turn 1 doesn’t feel as good as last year.

♊"From the inside it is very little difference and hard to tell but certainly in the corners you feel the difference where we improv🀅ed.

꧑“O🌼thers were a bit faster so that’s where we are and there is a lot of work to do so that’s what it is.

“We will tackle it as we are a strong team and the season hasn’t started yet so we will see where♎ we are in Australia when the season start🦄s.”