Vettel has yet to get off the mark this season as he continued to struggle to adapt 🅘to life with his neꦕw team at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya.

The German’s two-stop strategy ultimately proved to be unsuccessful as he got stuck be🤪hind Alfa Romeo’s Kimi Raikkonen.

“In the end I think we finished where the pace is at the moment, so it was a difficult race. You always learn but obviously we would have lik🌼ed to not just learn, but to scor🌜e points,” Vettel said.

“It was quite a tricky afternoon, and I was running out of ty🍨re life at the end, even though we went for the two-stop strategy. I made quite an early second stop and came out behind Kimi, which I think hurt my tyres quite a lot.

“That is what made it difficult to fight for points. With hindsight, it is always easy to say what you would do differently, but it was difficult to fight the cars around me in the closing laps when they had a ty▨re ad💦vantage.”

The four-time champion🔜 was handed the new aero package for this weekend in Ba🐻rcelona after running without it in Portimao.

It still wasn’t enough for Vettel to score his fiౠrst points of the campaign, but he felt the team is making progress.

“But we will keep working hard and we know there is a long season still ahead of us,” Vettel added. The new parts we had here helped, and we need to keep taking steps forward each week💜end.”

Aston Martin sits seventh in the constructors' championship, with just five poin🦩tꦅs to its name.