Feb.14 (GMM) Dr Helmut Marko has revealed that he issued a transparent “no” to Sebastian Vettel’s need to return to Method 1 in 2025 with Purple Bull.
Amid the swirling rumours about Sergio Perez’s unsure future final 12 months, advisor Marko admits the crew’s former quadruple world champion Vettel picked up the cellphone.
That’s although, as lately as mere days in the past, the 37-year-old German insisted he’s completely comfortable in retirement.
“I’ve actually loved the previous couple of years, together with the time with the kids,” Vettel instructed RTL. “Hopefully the kids have too.
“Possibly the temper will change once more, however for the time being issues are nonetheless going very nicely.”
Auto Bild insists, nonetheless, that Vettel is “not utterly completed” with Method 1 fairly but.
“He says to his confidants that he nonetheless feels match sufficient,” journalist Ralf Bach claims. “He’ll proceed to search for a comeback alternative.”
Bach added that, regardless of the official story, Vettel really didn’t voluntarily retire. “Aston Martin didn’t wish to prolong his contract, and others didn’t wish to give him a brand new one,” he stated.
In keeping with the identical report, after Vettel retired, he “provided his companies” to Audi’s new Method 1 mission – however Sauber and Audi turned him down.
As for Marko, he freely admits that Vettel needed to be Max Verstappen’s teammate for 2025.
“Sebastian would have favored to drive alongside Max for us,” he stated. “However that wouldn’t have made sense – additionally to guard him.
“Max would have clearly crushed him and broken Sebastian’s fame. I couldn’t and didn’t wish to permit that.”
David Coulthard, who retired from F1 in 2008 on the age of 37 – driving for Purple Bull – urged Vettel to embrace his post-racing life.
“He ought to give it up and cease dreaming that he will likely be quicker after taking just a few years off,” he’s quoted as saying by Pace Week. “He wasn’t fairly at his greatest on the finish at Aston Martin.
“The stopwatch doesn’t lie,” Coulthard added.
