Vettel was two years into his ultimately unsuccessful stint with Ferrari when 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Nico Rosberg, the reigning 2016 F1 world champion, announced his shock retirement leavin𒉰g a vacant Mercedes seat💖 alongside Hamilton.

"Maybe there was [a chance], I spok𝐆e with Niki,” Vettel said. 

“But to be hone🥂st, it was halfway through the Ferrari period.

"Obviously it would have been a big deal, beca🧸use 🐎Lewis was their No1, and I'm not sure whether they would have liked to have us both in the team. 

“But I als൲o didn't have great interest at that time, because I was so committed to Ferrari.

"That was my dream to make tha♋t thing work so you talk to each other but it wasn't re🌼ally serious.

"I t✨hink it would have been a great challenge and I think I would have enjoyed that🌺 but it just wasn't meant to be.

"My focus was to win with F⛄errari. I didn'𒅌t want to change team and win with Mercedes, but it just didn't happen. I am cool with that.

"I think I would have enjoyed racing with Lewis, we get along really we꧒ll, and our moment 😼was the 2017 Azerbaijan Grand Prix, where we had maybe what you would call nowadays a 'misunderstanding!’"

Vettel collided into the back of Hamilton’💜s car in Baku - then accused the Brit of brake-testing him.

The duo hel🙈d a heated conversation afterwards which paved the way for them to become friends in later years.

"I was very upset,” Vettel said. “It was one of these moments where things didn't go my way. And I was upset, a🌠nd maybe the emotional side did take over too much.

"Bu💎t I think actually, that moment was a key moment becau🎀se it could have made us step away from each other more, or bring us together. And it brought us together.

"I reflect and I did think about what happened.

"And as much as I might have felt in the moment thꦑat it is not fair, [what I did is] not right.

"I wanted to show him, I wanted to tell him, but obviously weꦫ're wearing helmets, and it's hard to communicate. So that was a form of communicationﷺ.

"But I also did see that it 🔥was the wrong form, ♒and it was not the right way.

"It wasn't sportsmanlike and not fair, which I admitted afterwards, and we talked to each other and I think since that moment𓆏, we got closer to eไach other."