Mercedes and Red Bull believe Ferrari is the fastest

It might be two race wins out of two for Mercedes but two of the top three teams in F1 believe that Ferrari is the true pace-setters at this early stage in the 2019 season.

In Melbourne, Ferrari lagged behind their competition and is believed to have been covering up a power unit issue which, along with the compromised set up to compensate for said issue, relegated them to third fastest team on that weekend.

Two weeks later in Bahrain and it really should have been a Ferrari one-two with Charles Leclerc and Sebastian Vettel suffering their own issues in the race, and instead, finished third and fifth respectively.

While Mercedes leads the way in the constructors' standings, it is Ferrari who has the upper hand according to their rivals.

"Ferrari were very strong at the weekend," Red Bull team principal Christian Horner explained after the race.

Mercedes' Valtteri Bottas also pointed out Ferrari's advantage, focusing on the Italian team's straight-line speed in particular.

"We’ve seen Ferrari was making all the time on the straights, and in China, there’s a longer straight. So we do need to work hard," he said.