Aston Martin will have to put a "performing structure" in place to convince four-time Formula One world champion Sebastian Vettel to stay on beyond the end of the season, the squad's new team principal Mike Krack said.
Vettel, a 53-time race winner who joined the team from Ferrari in 2021, is out of contract at the end of the year and has said his future would depend on whether Aston Martin's 2022 challenger can return him to winning ways.
"It's clear that a guy like Sebastian, a four-time world champion, he does not want to be 15th or 12th or eighth," Krack, formerly BMW's motorsport head who replaced Otmar Szafnauer, told reporters in his first media briefing.