Sebastian Vettel still has what it takes to win world championships following his Ferrari exit, according to his former Formul🐻a 1 boss and current AlphaTauri team principal Franz Tost.

Vettel - who claimed his and Toro Rosso’s first F1 victory in his one and a half season spell at the Faenza squad under Tost’s leadership - is leaving F꧋errari 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 remain on the F1 grid 🏅in 2021.

There is an opening at Renault as the McLaren-bound Daniel Ricciard🌳o’s replacement, but Vettel is reportedly pursuing a seat 🐼at Mercedes and could retire from the sport if he is unsuccessful.

“The end of something always means the start🍷 of something,” Tost told the official F1 websiteಞ.

“It really depends on what seat he gets. To fight for a championship, Sebastian Vettel is a d💮river of the calibre who can 𝕴do this.

“He need🐭s to get a seat in the first three teams. Then he has a real chance to win races and another championship. I know Sebastian quite well, and tha🅺t 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 package, [if] he’s sitting in a Ferra🅺ri, 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 side, I don’t think he needs🦄 to continue racing, but d𓃲rivers who have won championships, they don’t think so much of the money,” he explained.

“Their mot🌱ivation is to win races, to be successful. That’s the motivation, not the money.

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