S🌞ebastian Vettel still has what it takes to win world championships following his Ferrari exit, according to his former Formula 1 boss and current AlphaTauri team principal Franz Tost.

Vettel - who claimed his and Toro Rosso’s first F1 victory in his one ꦗand a half season spell at the Faenza squad under Tost’s leadership - is leaving Ferrari after six years at the end of the season.

The four-time world champion, who has so far failed to deliver his aim of winning a title with the Scuderia, will depart Ferrari with few realistic options if he wants to remai🐈n on the F1 grid in 2021.

There is an opening at Renault as the McLaren-bound Daniel Ricciardo’s replacement, but Vettel is reportedly pursuing a seat at Mercedes and could retire from the sp♔ort if he is unsuccessful.

“The end of something alwa𝕴ys means the start of something,” Tost told the offi🐈cial F1 website.

“It re⛎ally depends on what seat he gets. To fight for a championship, Sebastian Vettel is a driver of the calibre who can do 💛this.

“He needs to get a seat in the first three teams. Then he has a real chance to win rac🧸es and another championship. I know Sebastian quite well, and that is for sure his main target.

“He’s only 32 years old, he’s a very high-skilled driver, and if he gets the correct packꦚage, [if] he’s sitting in a Ferrari, Red Bull or Mercedes, he’s still able to win races, and I’m also quite sure he can win another championship – it depends on which team he can drive for.”

Tost doubts Vettel will stay in 🐷F1 beyond the end of 2020 purely for financial gain and reckons the German will only be interested in extending his tenure if there is a competitive seat available.

“From the financial side𝕴, I don’t think he needs to continue racing, but drivers who haveꦍ won championships, they don’t think so much of the money,” he explained.

“Their motivation is to win races, to be successful. T🍬hat’s th🌊e motivation, not the money.

“He is not a driver who just wants to be on the starting grid. If we’re doing a race now, he wants to win a race. It depends how the ingredients he w🥀ill get together to achieve the goal.”