Sebastian V𒅌ettel says all the 🍌boxes “were easy to tick” when he decided to join the Aston Martin Formula 1 team for 2021.

The four-time world champion will link up with Racing Point when it rebrands into🌟 the Aston Martin F1 Team next year after Ferrari decided against offering Vettel a new deal for 2021 an🅰d beyond.

Vettel will replace Sergio Perez – who has been left without a seat on the grid for next season – and partner Lance Stroll to complete the Silverstone-based outfit’s r💯evised driver line-ꦚup.

Racing Point is currently enjoying an upward trajecto✨ry with its hotly debated and controversial RP20 challenger, which has helped the team contest in a monumental fight over third place in the constructors’ championship this year.

Speaking to the official F1 podcast Beyond the Grid, Vettel revealed the main factors which ul𓄧timately influenced his decision.

Asked what had convinced him to join Aston Martin, Vettel replied: "Lawrence did, an🍰d the fact that the team is growing. There were a lot of factors.

“Those boxes were easy to tick, in terms of performance, the racing side of things: where the team is, where the team might be. The potential and so on. But moreso it was the mindset and the will 🔯to rea𓃲lly do something, and do something good, bring something together.

“It sounds like a fun project, somet🌊hing I ultimately decide𝔉d to be part of. It is very different to Ferrari, there will be a lot of things happening for the first time.

“It is an incredible challenging journey for the whole team, and with me joining, I hope I can contribute to a lot of things and do good inside and outside of th🥂e car.”

While Vettel believes he has ultimately “failed” during a difficult period at🌸 Ferrari that did not bring about any championship titles, the German insists he does not have regrets looking back on his time with the Scuderia.

"I don't think I will go on, having any regrets looking back. It is trܫue that I have failed because I set myself the mission o🦂r the target to win the championship with Ferrari, so I have failed because I didn’t manage to do that.

“There are things that maybe I should have done better, things that maybe I should have seen earlier, fights tha🐽t I shouldn’t have picked. But then again, everything that has happened brought me to where I am now.

“I am generally not talking about stuff thꦗat happens on the track now, losing the car in Hockenheim, many people point that out as a l🐼ow point but I’m not talking about things like that. I’m more talking about what’s been going on.

“If I am fair and harsh, then I have failed. Werꦉe there reasons? Probably yes. But I don't accept them as excuses. Whatever happened, brought me ꦓto the next step forward.”

Ve🙈ttel said that his long-term goals is to achieve “happiness” after admitting h𒈔is love for F1 and his priorities have changed over the years.

"Short term I am changing teams,” he explained. “As much as it is difficult to expect🎉 things, I have things in my head and mind that I want to achieve and I measure myself against.

“That♑’s normal. But being h🐻appy, growing, basically never stop learning. Being content on who you are.”