Sebastian Vettel has refused to pin the blame on Mercedes for Aston Martin’s ꦇreliability troubles during Formula 1 pre-season testing in Bahrain.

The four-time world champion’s preparations to get up to speed with his new team ahead of the upcoming campaign were hamper✱ed by a plethora of reliability issues that limited his running🌟.

Vett𓄧el ultimately ended the three-day test at the bottom of the mileage charts having completed just 117 laps altogether as Ast♊on Martin encountered a gearbox failure, a suspected turbo issue, and an electrical problem across the three days.

But the 🃏German stressed that finding the root cause of the issues in time for the first race in two weeks is more important than pointing the finger of blame.

“I don’t quite agree,” Vettel replied when asked if the fault for Aston Martin’s issues fell𓆏 on Mercedes. “It’s in our car.

"It’s true that the power unit is the Mercedes power unit and it’s true the gearbox is supplied by Mercedes but it’s still instaᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚ👍ᩚlled into our car so there’s a lot of components that mixed at some stage.

“I do🐟n’t know to be honest right now where the source of the problem was this afternoon, where exactly it was, so we need to get to the bottom of it.

“Ultimately it will be more on one side or the other side but it doesn’t ma𝔉tter. It needs to be fixed anꦏd addressed.

“We will work together because whatever you acquire fr🧸om outside you still need to put in our car and make it work.”

ಞVettel admitted the setbacks had left him on the back foot and around “100 laps short” of the running he would have hoped to have completed going into the new season. But unlike a decade ago, the vastly experienced 33-year-old said he is not entering “p🌄anic” mode.

“I'm not too preoccupied,” he explained. “Maybe it's the age, maybe it's 🐠the experience, but probably 10 years ago I would finally panic now.

"But then agai﷽n, if I were to panic now would it help? Probably not. We are just trying to do our things 🌼and use the time now we have.

"We still got some running, And for me it was ꦚsuper, super useful the laps [on the last day].

"So, it could be worse. It could be better, but i🍨t could be worse. So I think it's abou෴t remaining calm, doing one thing at a time and moving forward when it's time to."