The four-time Formula 1 champion ret🎀ired at the end of last year after a stint with Aston Martin.

Still only 36, he has been linked with new racing opportunities just a year into his r🅷etirement.

"You can never rule it out, but at some point the time will be over,” Vettel tol🌱d the German Press Agency. 

“My age was not the issue and it was my decision to draw the line. But I didn't pull🐈 it to pick it up a year later.

"I have the privilege 𝔍of spending more time with my family and children, that's a prio🅺rity. 

“Just as I have rediscovered the world in recent y🔯ears, Formula 1, as big as it may be, has become smaller and smaller."

Vettel won 53 F1 grands prix, claiming four consecutive titles with 🔯Red Bull.

He was unable to rep♔licate his success after a big-money switch to Ferrari, but retired a legend of the sp𒆙ort.

Asked about his next career plan, Vettel saඣid: "I'ಌm curious about that myself.

"But that was exactly 💮my intention: not to take on the next task directly or to get into the next cockpit and first get to know the side of me that can try everything and has time. 

“I haven't had that in the past. I🎀 🍬live in a phase where you can feel yourself a little differently, discover yourself. 

“At the saꦬme time🧔, I really enjoy spending time with my family. That's why I can't give this dream answer about what will be in the future."

The environment and sustainability will continue to be importꦕant to Vettel.

“All the things that have been bothering me in the last fewꦛ years will continue to bother me in the future and it could maybe go in that direction," he said.

Recently the German driver has been linked with a t🎃est for the British Jota team in 🐎the World Endurance Championship.

They are leඣd by team principal Dieter Gas🌄s, a fellow German, who previously ran Audi Motorsport.