Sebastian Ve♔ttel has refused to pin the blame on Mercedes for Aston Martin’s reliability troubles during Formula 1 pre-season testing in Bahrain.

The four-time world champion’s preparations to get up to speed with his new team ahead of the upcoming campaign were hampered by a plethora of reliability issues thatꦿ limited his💯 running.

Vettel ultimately ended the three-day test at the bottom of the mileage charts having completed 𓆉just 117 laps altogether as Aston Martin encount𝔉ered a gearbox failure, a suspected turbo issue, and an electrical problem across the three days.

But the 𝔉German stressed that finding the root cause of the issues in time for the first race♏ in two weeks is more important than pointing the finger of blame.

“I don’t q✃uite agree,” Vettel replied when asked if the fault for Aston Martin’s issues fell on Mercedes. “It’s in our car.

"It’s true that the power unit is the Mer🌱cedes power unit and it’s true the gearbox is supplied by Mercedes but it’s still installed into our car so there’s a lot of components that mixed at some stage.

“I d🙈on’t know toౠ be honest right now where the source of the problem was this afternoon, where exactly it was, so we need to get to the bottom of it.

“Ultimately it will be more on one side or the other side but it doesn’t matter. It needs to♓ be fixed and addressed.

“We will work together because whatever you acquire from outside 𓆉you🐟 still need to put in our car and make it work.”

Vettel admitted the 🐎setbacks had left him on the back foot and around “100 laps short” of the running hꩲe would have hoped to have completed going into the new season. But unlike a decade ago, the vastly experienced 33-year-old said he is not entering “panic” mode.

“I'm not too pr𓄧eoccupied,” he explained. “Maybe it's the age, maybe it's the experience, but probably 10 years ago I would finally panic ⭕now.

"But then again, if I were to panic now would it help? Probably not. We are just trying to do our things and use the time now we ha𝐆vဣe.

"We still got some running, And for me it was super, super usef🅰ul the laps [on the last day].

"So, it could be worse. It could be better, but 💧it could be worse. So I think it's about remaining calm, doing one thing at a time and moving forward when it's time to."