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

The four-time world champion will link up with Racing Point when it rebrands into the Aston ൩Martin F1 Team next year after Ferrari decided against offering Vettel a new deal for 2021 and beyond.

V𝕴ettel will replace Ser♑gio 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 revised driver line-up.

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

Speaking to the offiওcial F1 podcast Bey🐟ond the Grid, Vettel revealed the main factors which ultimately influenced his decision.

Asked what had convinced him to join Aston Martin, Vettel repl☂ied: "Lawrence did, and the fact that the team is growing. There wꦅere 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 realꦑly do something🍬, and do something good, bring something together.

“It sounds lik🧜e a fun project, something I ultimately decided to be part of. It is very different to Ferrari, there will𒅌 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 thin🤪gs and do good inside and outside of the c🅺ar.”

While Vettel believes he has ultimately “f🀅ailed” 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 true that I have failed ℱbecause I set myself the mission or the target to win the championship with Ferrari, so I have f💦ailed 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 that I shouldn’t have picked. But then again, ever♋ything that has happened brought me to where I am now.

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

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

V🃏ettel said that his long-term goals is to achieve “happiness” after admitting his love for F1 and his priorities have changed over the years.

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

“Tha🧸t’s normal. But being happy, growing, basically never stop learning. Being content on who you🧸 are.”