Sepang, Malaysia  - Sebastian Vettel is looking to put the mistake that cost him a podium place in last weekend's season-opening Australian Grand Prix behind him when the Red Bull driver takes his place on the grid for Sunday's Malaysian GP in Sepang.

Vettel lay second with less than three laps remaining at the Albert Park circuit in Melbourne when he pulled wide on a corner, and as Robert Kubica of BMW-Sauber tried to capitalize from the mistake, the German crashed into him.

Melbourne - Toyota have decided against appealing the 25- second penalty imposed on driver Jarno Trulli after the Italian was deemed to have overtaken under safety car conditions during Sunday's season-opening Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne.

Trulli slid off the track in the safety car phase which forced Lewis Hamilton in a McLaren-Mercedes to pass him. Trulli then moved ahead of the world champion again, but the stewards deemed this move illegal under safety car conditions.

The decision moved Hamilton up to third while Trulli was demoted to 12th.

Hamburg - Lewis Hamilton is playing down the chances of replicating the third-place finish he achieved in Sunday's season- opening Formula One race in Australia in this weekend's Malaysian Grand Prix in Sepang.

"Firstly, we shouldnt get carried away by our podium in Australia. Yes, we had a fantastic race but were all aware that our car isnt capable of repeating that sort of performance on sheer pace alone," said the defending world champion in a statement on the McLaren-Mercedes team website.

Melbourne - Mercedes motorsport director Norbert Haug has spoken out against the uncertainty of the new rule changes in Formula One in the wake of Brawn GP's imperious one-two victory in Sunday's season-opening Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne.

Jenson Button took the chequered flag ahead of team-mate Rubens Barrichello but Ferrari, Renault and Red Bull have all protested the decision by the race commissioners at Albert Park to allow Honda's successor team, as well as Williams and Toyota, to field new diffusers.

Hamburg - The Brawn GP Formula One team is to reduce the workforce at the team's Brackley factory in England by 270 to cut costs.

The team made the announcement shortly after celebrating a one-two victory in Sunday's season-opening Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne.

"It's very unfortunate that we've got to do that but it's the change of technical regulations and obviously we are now a private team," said team chief executive Nick Fry.

"We are about 700 people at the moment and we talked to the staff about going down to about 430."

Melbourne - Ferrari have reacted with a large degree of self-criticism to the Italian team's disappointing start to the 2009 Formula One season when Felipe Massa and Kimi Raikkonen both finished out of the points in the Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne.

"This was, no matter what way you look at it, definitely not a start worthy of Ferrari. It was a day to forget," said Ferrari team principal Stefano Domenicali after Massa and Raikkonen failed to point at the season-opening race won by Jenson Button of Brawn GP.