Vettel's first Q3 visit in Aston Martin colours breaks a run of 15 races of failing to progress into the final part of qualifying, stretching back to the British Grand Prix last year while driving ൲for Ferrari.

It is also the first time the German has out-quali🌺fied Aston Martin teammate Lance Stroll, who is running the new upgrade package for this weekend's grand prix.

Reflecting on qualifying tenth at Portimao, Vettel believes it’s the m🔯ost comfortable he’s felt🃏 since joining the Silverstone-based outfit.

“Yeah, despite the difficult conditions, probably yes,” Vettel sa🌱id. “As I said, things started to click a little bit more than they did previously which is good. But for sure today was a very diff🐭icult day.

“The car is all over the place, that’s for most other people. With the wind changing, you can’t see it, you can’t see there’s going to be a gust and you use it. If it hits you from behind, you lose the car. Tricky but overall better, I was a bit happy with m♌y driving.”

Vettel wasn’t entirely happy with his final Q3 effort, as he felt there was more time in the car despite✃ condition🙈s getting worse as the wind picked up at the end of qualifying.

“I was not entirely happy wi🀅th the final lap, I think the conditions changed a bit,” Vettel added. “Maybe the lap on the used [tyres] didn’t๊ help keep the rhythm up but overall it was for sure better and it started to work a little bit better.

“In qualifying, you should not think about your laps, you should just execute. It felt a bit more like that but I think there’s still more from my side that I need to improve. In the end you d♈on’t get many laps in qualifying trim, with the engine turned up, with new tyres, light on fuel, so♛ it’s only like a handful of laps every weekend.

“But definitely [it] seemed to help ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚme understand what the car needs, where I need to put the car to be faster. Today was a little bit better in that regard but still not the ideal result in terms of, you know, we want both cars in Q3 and further up.”