Vettel announced that he would end his ꧟15-year care🔴er, which has yielded four world championships, at the end of this seaso🐈n.

He had previously been in tal✅ks 🐻with Aston Martin over extending his stay but, according to his father, a disastrous weekend in Austria was a catalyst to retire.

"It's a shame, but I unde🧸rstand him," Norbert Vettel told German TV station RTL.

"I🐲t was an incredible career foꦕr my son but the low point was Austria. 

“It hurt him so much to driv🌳e around at the end of the field and that accelerated those tho💖ughts for him.”

V☂ettel finished last, of all the drivers who completed the race, at the F1 Austrian Grand Prix.

He was also punished with a suspended fine of €25,000 for walking out of the driv𓃲ers’ briefing.

Vettel ended the weekend by calling for li🎐fe bans for 🦋abusive fans, after reports of sexual harassment in Austria.

Fabian Vettel, the driver’s brother, told RTL: "Through his enthusiasm for natur꧒e and the other people who live on this planet, he will invest a lot of time on that.”

Vettel sits 14th in the 2022 standinꦗgs ahead of the F1 Hungarian Grand Prix🌊.

He has admitted that he is "scared of what's to come" after ܫending his F1 career. He will leave a vacant Aston Martin seat and appeared to tip Mick🎃 Sc🌊humacher, who he mentors, to replace him.