Sebastian Vettel signs with Racing Point / Aston Martin F1 team

LONDON — 4-time System Just one winner Sebastian Vettel will travel for Racing Issue starting off future time.

The group, which will be renamed Aston Martin, introduced the move Thursday, a day after driver Sergio Perez mentioned he was on his way out. The group mentioned Vettel has signed for the 2021 time “and beyond” but did not reveal the duration of the agreement.

“The signing of Sebastian is a crystal clear assertion of the team’s ambition to set up alone as a person of the most aggressive names in the sport,” the group mentioned in a assertion. “As a four-time planet winner, Sebastian brings a fresh new frame of mind to the group.”

Just one of the most successful motorists in F1, Vettel is leaving Ferrari at the conclusion of this time after he was not supplied a new agreement. He will be changed by McLaren driver Carlos Sainz at Ferrari future yr.

Vettel has received fifty three grand prix races, a tally only surpassed by Michael Schumacher and Lewis Hamilton. He received four consecutive titles with Pink Bull from 2010-thirteen and joined Ferrari in 2015 with the goal to get yet another.

But he by no means experienced a motor vehicle truly able of hard Mercedes for the duration of his stint with the Scuderia, where by he misplaced his No. one position as teammate Charles Leclerc came to prominence.

“It’s a new adventure for me with a definitely famous motor vehicle corporation,” Vettel mentioned. “I have been impressed with the outcomes the group has reached this yr, and I believe the long term seems to be even brighter. I however have so a lot really like for System Just one and my only motivation is to race at the entrance of the grid.”

At the moment fourth in the constructors’ standings, Racing Issue was handed a 400,000 euro ($470,000) high-quality and docked fifteen factors very last month for copying a Mercedes structure for its brake ducts. The group, on the other hand, was permitted to go on to use the offending factors this time.

Racing Point’s other driver is Lance Stroll, the son of co-owner Lawrence Stroll.