Vettel covered 581km at the wheel of Porsche Penske Motorsport’s WEC challenger at Motorland Aragon earlier this week. The four-time Components 1 world champion had previously taken part in a simulator day as well as an inaugural run on the German marque’s Weissach observe.
Regardless of taking part in down future alternatives earlier than the check, claiming “in the intervening time there aren’t any additional plans for the longer term”, Vettel has now acknowledged the opportunity of collaborating within the French endurance traditional for the primary time.
Talking throughout a press convention in his position as Perple sports activities drink’s ambassador, Vettel clarified: “I used to be curious how these automobiles behave, and that was the rationale for the check. It was a really good expertise, I loved it lots, I had lots of enjoyable.
“Now I must assume and resolve, and make my thoughts up what I perhaps wish to do by way of racing sooner or later. However I do not know but.”
Vettel retired from F1 on the finish of the 2022 marketing campaign, concluding a profitable 16-year profession throughout which he took 57 pole positions and 122 podium finishes, together with 53 race wins.
When he announced his retirement in July 2022, the German defined: “My objectives have shifted from successful races and combating for championships to seeing my kids develop, passing on my values, serving to them up once they fall, listening to them once they want me, not having to say goodbye and most significantly having the ability to study from them and allow them to encourage me.”
Sebastian Vettel, Porsche 963
Picture by: Porsche Motorsport
Subsequently, Vettel has not taken half in any aggressive racing since leaving F1, though he’s understood to have been in preliminary talks with Porsche buyer squad Jota for a WEC programme final yr.
Porsche will now enter a 3rd manufacturing unit automotive at Circuit de la Sarthe to spice up its probabilities, having taken pole place, victory and a double podium end within the inaugural spherical of the 2024 WEC season in Qatar earlier this month.
Porsche had beforehand said that it could use its IMSA SportsCar Championship roster to finish the line-up for its third Le Mans entry, leaving Nick Tandy, Felipe Nasr and Dane Cameron as the one drivers within the working to share the #4 automotive alongside Mathieu Jaminet, who has already been nominated by the German constructor on the entry listing.
Porsche had been planning to announce the complete line-up in both late March or early April however may need modified its stance following Vettel’s profitable check in Spain.
As a possible Le Mans debut turns into extra credible, Vettel was requested whether or not he would have the Perple drink in his automotive throughout these 24 Hours. “If I resolve to… I am going to let you know what, it was within the drinks pouch after I examined the automotive!” he replied. “So yeah, ought to I race in Le Mans, 100% it will likely be there, as a result of it is precisely what I would want at a race the place you sit within the automotive for a really very long time.”
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