Vettel signed for Aston Martin after he was dropped by Ferrari after six seasons 🥃with the team.

The Silverstone-based outfit endured a difficult year as it was most affected by the chan🌺ges to🌺 the floor regulations for 2021, struggling to seventh in the constructors’ championship.

Aston Martin’s lack of form 💝meant that Vettel struggled to consistently score points🌼, although he finished on the podium with a fantastic display in Azerbaijan.

Szafnauer highlighted Vettel’s willin❀gness to work with the engineers and the strong rapport he already has with the team.

“He’s been brilliant. He’s such a man of integrity, he works hard, great work ethic🗹, leaves no stone unturned,” he said.

“The engineers like working with him, the mechanics love him as a person. He’s just a genuine guy. And that💧 goes a long way in life.”

Despite not working with him before, Szafnauer said he wasn’t surprised by how well Vettel settl🎉ed into the team.

“I never worked with him as closely as I have this year but I’ve known him for 15 yꦑears,” he explained.

“Everyone else that has worked 💦closely with him talked about him in the same way that I’m talking about him now. 

“And socially, I could see those traits as well. So was I surp𒐪rised? No, but I was delighted to have what I𝔉 thought he was confirmed by his actions.”

Vettel finished second behind Esteban Ocon at th♛e Hungarian Grand Prix but was later disqualified after the FIA was unable to extract a sufficient 🍸fuel sample from the car.

Szafnauer beli🍌eves that was his best performance of the season and one that would have earned him a victory, on track at least, had it not been for a sluggish pit stop.

“Although the result didn’t count, th🅺rough no fault of his own, I thought he drove a brilliant race in Budapest, and tried and tired and tried to overtake Ocon,” he added.

“He wanted the win badly. It’s just so difficult to overtake i♒n Budapest, unless you have a massive, massive car pace advantage, which we didn’t have.

“Had♊ it been a little bit different, a bi𓆉t quicker pit stop, had we just gotten out of the pits ahead of Ocon, I think he would have left him [behind].”