Sebastian Vettel♛ has vowed to learn from his latest high-profile mistake after crashing into the back of Esteban Ocon at the F1 season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix.

While battl🐼ing well down the field in Bahrain, Vettel locked up and hit the back of the Alpine driver into Turn 1.

The four-time world champion was handed a 10-second time peꦬnalty for the incident, capping off a torrid first weekend for Aston Martin.

Reflecting on his error in Bahrain, Vettel was adamant that a similar mis🎉take would not happen again.

“I think the key is that I understand what happened and I think I did,” Vettel said. “You try to learn from it. I am quite sure it won’t happen again but as you said, obviously, going forwards, there are always things you can learn from y💫our mistakes and what mistakes other people are making.

“But for sure, the target is to have clean races and not to have anything interrupting that. I think that’s the expectation I set of myself and as you said, as well, thꦅe level I want to be at doesn’t excus꧟e things like this happening.”

Aston Martin struggled for pace in Bahra⛄in as Lance Stroll scored the teꦡam’s solitary point with P10.

Vettel believes the response from the team to its struggles has been “posi🌞tive”.

“As ✱you mentioned, it wasn’t a great weekend for us,” Vettel said. “Both in terms of all the things that happened, then in terms of resul♈t. I think we went through everything that happened and the response has been quite positive.

“The spirit is great in the team. I am willing to put everything in that I ca🦩n to try and understand, try and help, and try and have a better race this weekend. I think we are well prepared and we will see what we get. I think we learned a little bit about our car, to understand a bit more where it wants to be and try to take it from there.

“Obviously, we are not quite where we expect🌄ed or wanted to be but it is wꦚhat it is now. We have to tackle it bit by bit and take one step at a time. It feels like what we are doing.”