Sebastian Vettel says he will continue to race 🍃as a team player for Ferrari during the 2020 F1 season despite the spectre of his looming exit at the end of the season.

Ahead of this weekend’s Austrian Grand Prix the German made his first media appearance since it was con🧸firmed his tenure at Ferrari would conclude this season, before revealing it was the team that motivated his d🐓eparture.

With Charles Leclerc on a new long-term contract and Vettel on his way out, the four-𒁃time world champion’s 𒀰comments will potentially be seen as Ferrari’s appraisal of an error-prone 2019 season that involved more than one collision with his team-mate.

With this in mind, Vettel maintains he won’t change his mꦏindset in r🥀aces knowing he is on his way out.

Then again, he also intimates this is because he feels he has always approached races in a way that puts the te🤡am fi𝓡rst.

“I have always tried to integrate inside a team and the ♕same goes for my time with Ferrari,” he said ahead of the Austrian Grand Prix. “As much as you want to have success on track and look after your own result, in the end you are driving for a team as well.

“I think this year is very difficult to answer because we don’t know what type of season we have ahead of us and we don’t kn🔯ow how competitive we will be.

“Should the situation arඣise and it makes perfect sense then you expect both drivers to help each other out. I don’t think that has anything to do with the fact that my contract expires and I am going to leave the team, but at the same time you are racing for yourself.

Indeed, Vettel counters by🔥 saying he isn’t prepared to ‘make Charles’ life easy’ in the heat of battle but won’t be actively looking💫 to scupper chances for him.

“I am not trying to make Charles’ life easy on 𒀰track in terms of waving him by, I think we have been fighting each other in the past and we will༒ continue to do so.”