Formula 1: Sebastian Vettel cancels McLaren

Now it’s getting more and more turbulent: After the separation of Ferrari and Sebastian Vettel, the events on the Formula 1 transfer market overturn.

As of Wednesday morning, McLaren-Mercedes was still the safe option for Heppenheimer to continue his career in Formula 1 2021, but the situation has now changed completely unexpectedly.

How SPORT1 learned, the four-time world champion doesn’t want to do any development work in the autumn of his career and has to wait three years to get back in a winning car. This is the time the British team claims to need to get back on the winning road with the Mercedes engines (from 2021).

Vettel McLaren shared this with a heavy heart.

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Vettel is playing poker for a new cockpit

The Heppenheimer, on the other hand, is now determined to play poker. Specifically means: either he ends up at Mercedes or ends his career.

Background: Both the contract of superstar Lewis Hamilton and that of his Finnish team-mate Valtteri Bottas expire at the Silver Arrows this year. Vettel speculates particularly on the seat of the Finn, because the extension of Hamilton, according to Mercedes, is only a matter of form.

Wolff as a joker at Mercedes for Vettel?

And Vettel may also be hoping for the support of Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff. At the request of dpa the Austrian had recently made no secret of the fact that the name Vettel still has a good sound in Formula 1.

Although Wolff did not want to expressly comment on the personnel out of loyalty to his current drivers, he by no means saved with praise for the four-time world champion Vettel: “Sebastian is a great driver, a great personality and an asset to every Formula 1 team. “

McLaren, however, is now about to sign the contract with the Australian Daniel Ricciardo. The deal should be perfect by the weekend.

Vettel’s former teammate from Red Bull does not want to stay with Renault after two years and is said to have offered himself to McLaren.

Ricciardo will replace the Spaniard Carlos Sainz with the British, who is to be announced as Vettel’s successor at Ferrari in the next few days.

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