Mercedes have been warned against signing 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Sebastian Vettel as168澳洲5最新开奖结果: Lewis Hamilton’s replacement by 1996 F1 world champion Damon Hill.

Four-time world champion Vettel, who retired from F1 at the end of 2022, has been increasingly linked as a candidate for the vacant 2025 Mercedes seat afte🍰r admitting he is considering a comeback.

Ahead of this weekend’s Japanese Grand Prix, Toto Wolff c♔onceded Vettel is “ꦯsomeone you can never discount” as Mercedes weigh up their options.

But Hill says he wouldn🧸’t “take a chance” on whether Vettel can rediscover his best form, after enduring a difficul🐟t couple of final seasons prior to his retirement.

“He burned very brightly for an intense peri🌼od. Then, something happened,” Hill told Sky F1.

“It petered out. It bumped along. I never saw that form, ofꦯ the youthful Vettel that was dominant.

“He was great at the beginning of his career. Then, when it got difficult at Ferrari, it ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚbecame a labour.

“Would you, as 🥃a team boss, take a chance on him rediscovering his form? I wouldn’t, frankly.”

However, Craig Slater had a different view, arguing Vettel would be the perfect ‘stopgap’ if Andrea Kimi Antonelli isn’ꦗt quite ready t🌞o step up to F1 next year.

Mercedes protege Antonelli is understood to be the favourite to replace Hamilton, depending on how 🧸his rook♑ie Formula 2 season goes.

“He’s got the profile, he’s got the expert💛ise,” Slater said of Vettel.

“Audi want to launch❀ with fanfare.ꦅ He’d be a figurehead for them.

“If there is a ‘stopgap’ idea in Toto Wolff’s head before Kimi Antonel𝐆li com💧es along, what better stopgap to have?”