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

The Silverstone-based outfit endured a di🌌fficult year as it was most affected by the changes to the floor regulations for 2021, struggling to seventh in the constr൲uctors’ championship.

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

Szafnauer highlighted Vettel’s willingness to work with the engineers and the strꦚong 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,” hꦏe said.

“The engineers like working with him, the mechanics love him as a pe🔥rson. 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 settled into the team.

“I never worked with him as closely as I have this year🍷 but I’ve known him for 15 years,” 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 surprised? No, but I was delighted to have what I thought he was confirmed by his actions.”

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

Szafnauer believes that was his best performance o🌼f 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, through no fault of his own, I thought he drove a brilliant race in Budapest, and tried and tired and tried to overtake Ocಞon,” he added.

“He wanওted the win badly. It’s just so difficult to overta🌳ke in Budapest, unless you have a massive, massive car pace advantage, which we didn’t have.

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