head of Mercedes Motorsport Toto Wolff makes Sebastian Vettel a further low hopes for a Cockpit in the formula-1 world champion team for the season in 2021. “I’m going to assume that we make with Lewis and Valtteri,” said Wolff on Friday on Sky-microphone: “We are very happy with our drivers.”
However, he wanted to “Sebastian will not depreciate,” said the 48-Year-old. The Heppenheimer, who is retired at Ferrari to the end of the year, would be automatically an Option, “if one of our drivers says that he has no more desire”.
Vettel, since Friday, 33 years old, had tags shown previously to be interested in a Mercedes-Cockpit (“Who gets on, you can fight for the victory”), added, however: “I don’t know what the plans on the part of Mercedes.”
The contracts of world champion Lewis Hamilton (35/England) and Vice-Champion Valtteri Bottas (30/Finland) run at the end of the year, Wolff was on the verge of a formula 1 season opener at the Grand Prix of Austria in Spielberg (Sunday, 15.10 PM/RTL and Sky), to be confident, to tie the Duo to the team. Previously, Wolff had referred to Vettel as a “candidate”.
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