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Mike Krack does not think Sebastian Vettel is messing Aston Martin about regarding his future – and admitted the team have no “Plan B”in place just yet.

Vettel is thought to be deliberating whether to bring a close at the end of this season to a Formula 1 career that began in 2007 and yielded four consecutive World Championships from 2010-13, with 53 victories in total.

Unfortunately for the German, since those heady heights scaled in the early years of the previous decade, he has endured a gradual decline from being a regular race winner and title contender to now scrambling for points with Aston Martin, whom he joined for 2021 after being released by Ferrari.

Although Aston Martin have grand ambitions to reach the sport’s pinnacle, they are making slow progress and even going backwards comparatively, currently sitting ninth of 10 in the Constructors’ Championship.

The question is, at the age of 35, how long does Vettel want to wait around for the team’s anticipated improvement to materialise – and if it does, is he, in his own mind, still capable of maximising it?

Aston Martin say they are keen to continue benefitting from his vast experience, and are giving Vettel the time he needs to mull everything over and come to his decision.

“We have a very good relationship with Sebastian so we don’t want to set a deadline,” said Krack during an interview