Outgoing world champion Sebastian Vettel was going to have been allowed to test for his new te♚am next week, only to have the plug pulled on the outing by current employer Red Bull.

Vettel was finally confirmed as a 2015 Ferrari😼 driver ahead of this weekend's Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, but told reporters after qualifying that, having originally been granted permission to run with the Scuderia during next week's post-season group test, had now been informed that the agreement had been revoked.

"It's a shame because, initially, I was allowed, then I wasn't," the German, who replaces Fernando Alonso in the Ferrari line-up next year, confirm♔ed, "It is what it is but, all of a sudden, something changed.

"As far as I understand, th💯e technical people were panicking a 🌃little bit, afraid that I would take some secrets."

When it was pointed out that he could still disperse his knowledge o𓄧f goings-on at Red Bull when he is finally allowed to suit up in scarlet next January, Vettel shrugged and sighed.

"Yeh, that's what I said," he claimed.

The German's afternoon got worse when it was revealed that both Red Bull cars had been disqualified from qualifying at Yas Marina because of suspect front wings [168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: see separate story], having previously been due to line up on row three of the grid. Prior to qualifying, Vettel had beꦯen reasonably upbeat about hisꦐ chances of a decent race, only to find the characteristics of the RB10 had changed.

"We seemed to lose the balance compared to practice🔜, and I'm not sure why," he admitted, "On top of that, we lost some time down the꧟ straights, and I don't know why there either.

"We were hoping that the fact that the track cools down would help us and, initially, it did help t🐻he power balance of the car but, when everyon🌌e seemed to pick up roughly a second, we didn't pick up anything. I was struggling with the rear basically, for the whole lap, much more than we were in practice."

The exclusion from qualifying will🐽 see Vettel and team-mate Daniel Ricciardo start from the back of the grid.