Four-time F1 world champion snubs comeback for FARMING apprenticeship but leaves door open to Le Mans race

SEBASTIAN VETTEL has ruled retired a instrumentality to Formula One arsenic helium pursues a caller vocation successful FARMING.

Green-fingered Vettel, 37, won 4 F1 drivers championships successful a enactment betwixt 2010 and 2013 with Red Bull.

He near the Racing Bulls to articulation Ferrari successful 2015, wherever helium stayed until joining Aston Martin successful 2021.

Vettel near the motorsport successful 2022 and has since promoted respective environmentally affable initiatives.

And his latest escapade has seen the German instrumentality up an apprenticeship successful agriculture.

During an quality astatine an awards ceremonial in Braunschweig, Germany, Vettel told RTL: "I americium really going to school.

"I americium doing an apprenticeship successful agriculture."

Asked whether helium was looking to go a full-time farmer, helium said: "Not quite. It is fundamentally a condensed signifier of it. After that, I tin tally my ain business.

"This country fascinates me. I find it highly breathtaking erstwhile it comes to the aboriginal of agriculture."

Vettel lives with his woman and 3 children connected a farmhouse successful Switzerland.

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He has been a semipermanent champion of being climate-friendly and was 1 of the main voices who spoke astir the origin during his days successful F1.

Speaking astir his beingness with his 3 children, helium said: "With the 3 kids, determination is capable to bash anyway.

"My beingness is overmuch quieter than it utilized to be. I don't question arsenic overmuch anymore."

However, Vettel has not wholly closed the doorway connected a instrumentality to motorsport and teased a imaginable quality astatine Le Mans successful the future.

He said: "I'm not returning to F1.

"But Le Mans could beryllium an option."

Vettel won 53 races and scored 122 podiums during his F1 career.

He is the youngest-ever F1 satellite champion, a rubric helium took from Lewis Hamilton.

Max Verstappen emulated Vettel aft being crowned a four-time satellite champion successful Las Vegas past weekend, erstwhile again with Red Bull.