Helmut Marko on Sebastian Vettel F1 comeback: “I think he wants it, if…”
Sebastian Vettel comeback rumours restart at the F1 Chinese ♏Grand Prix

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Sebastian Vettel &🌳nbsp;wants 💞an F1 return, but only in a front-running car, claims Red Bull’s Helmut Marko.
The four-time F1 champion has teased a potential comeback amid the driver market ramping up ahead of 2025, when Le▨wis Hamilton will go to Ferrari.
Mercedes still have a significan💎t vacancy to fill, as a result.
Ma💃rko told on Friday at🌄 the F1 Chinese Grand Prix about Vettel’s wish to return to the grid: "I think he wants it if he sees the chance to get a top car somewhere,.
"Then he's ready for it."
But Vettel will not find space at Red Bull, the team where he won his four💙 consecutive Formula 1 championships, Marko confirmed.
❀Although Sergio Perez’s contract as Max Verstappen’🥀s teammate is expiring, he is in-form and in the mix for a renewal.
Ferrari, where Vettel underwhelmed after a high-profile 🐓switch in 2015, have locked in Hamilt🌱on and Charles Leclerc for next year and beyond.
Aston Martin, Vettel’s ♏final F1 team before his r💦etirement in 2022, have tied down Fernando Alonso, removing a key seat and a major driver option from the market.
McLaren are assured 🀅of Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri.
It leaves Mercedes as the only pos🐼sibility in one of the better F1 cars for next year.
🌞Vettel’s hero Michael Schumacher came out of retirement to spearhead a new era at Mercedes successful♚ly.
But Andrea Kimi Antonelli and Carlos S𓂃ainz are also o💃ptions for Mercedes to replace Hamilton.
Audi are a German powerhouse who may want a German legend but they do not enter F1 properly until 2016, and will con✃tinue running as Sauber next year.
Vettel is still only 36. This is the⛎ second season without him on the grid since his retirement.
But the noises around a comeback have got louder.
"I heard that Sebastian Vettel wants to drive a car again,” Ralf Schumacher🌠 previously told .
Vettel told earlier this season thaꩵt an F1 return “depends on the package”.
He said: "I retired from Formula 1 not to come back, but I also did say that you never know. So I think it sti𓃲ll s🃏tands.
"Obviously, there's things that I miss, which is mostly the competition. And things that I don't miss, so⭕ that hasn't changed. Obviously, life is very different if you're not involved and I do enjoy that still.”
Vettel added to the : "I'm having thoughts that are crossing my mind and thinkin💙g abouඣt [a return].”

James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everyt💎hing from American sports, to football, to F1.