Vettel plays down ambition Ready ... Sebastian Vettel, right, with teammate Mark Webber at the launch of the new Red Bull car at Milton Keynes. LONDON: Sebastian Vettel distanced himself from a suggestion that he was planning world domination as formula one champions Red Bull unveiled the car that could carry him to a fourth successive title this season. World domination? I'm German, but I didn't say that," said the startled 25-year-old at the launch of the RB9, revealed under bright lights and to a pulsating beat in a chilly hangar next to the team's Milton Keynes factory yesterday. "I have no moustache," he added with a cheeky grin, to laughter from an audience of sponsors and predominantly British factory employees, lest anyone fail to get the allusion to Adolf Hitler. The RB9, the latest brainchild of designer Adrian Newey, has every chance of becoming a world-beater and follows cars that have set the pace for the past three seasons. Vettel was dominant in 2011 but not so last year, when seven different drivers won the first seven races and Red Bull struggled to get on top of the Pirelli tyres initially. The top teams could be closer than ever, with so little regulation change from last year, when this season starts in Australia on March 17. Vettel, racing again with Australian teammate Mark Webber for the fifth season after beating him in the four previous ones, will have to wait until Wednesday for his first taste of the car at the Jerez test track. "The focus is really on pretty much the same as every year," he said. Start the season the right way, have a good first race in Melbourne, make sure that in testing we have prepared the car as much as we can. Whether it's quick or not, we will see. Hopefully we are up there. There is no guarantee for that even though we were doing pretty good in the last couple of years ... I think it's probably the same teams as last year. I don't expect any miracles but equally I expect a very long and very tough season. Lots of races, close racing ... hopefully at the end of the year we can say it all worked out. As for the off-season, Vettel said: "I've been pretty quiet, not done much. I've been fortunate to stay at home, especially after what was a tough end to last season. So I was able to enjoy being at home, enjoy the things that were awaiting me there, some DIY, stuff you don't have time to do during the season. I enjoyed that, and I enjoyed sleeping in my own bed, making my own breakfast, rather than sleeping in a hotel and having the buffet. The new car is a clear evolution from last year's but with notable design tweaks. "The devil is really in the detail with this car," Newey said. Perhaps the most significant change is not in the regulations, it's the new Pirelli tyres.