Every single ordinary choice in Formula 1 stays on hold during the coronavirus emergency including the drivers’ transfer. Ferrari group head Mattia Binotto has clarified the group “love and appreciate” Sebastian Vettel as one of its drivers.

Ferrari secured Charles Leclerc with a long haul F1 agreement to keep him at the Scuderia until at any rate the finish of 2024. After that, all attention on its driver line-up changed to four-time world champion Sebastian Vettel.

There were numerous rumors of a possible transfer of Lewis Hamilton to Ferrari. Ferrari team principal Binotto has reaffirmed the German as its main decision to race close by Leclerc from 2021 onwards.

However, the F1 season is on hold due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Any advancement on another contract among Vettel and Ferrari is incidentally on hold until a feeling of ordinariness resumes when the focus can move back to racing instead of the progressing shutdown and race schedule reshuffling.

Binotto says the deferral to the beginning of the 2020 F1 season doesn’t give beneficial advantages to both of his drivers as both stays anxious to come back to racing. The Ferrari boss likewise said Vettel’s very nature makes him a driver the group acknowledges and appreciates having in one of its vehicles.

Sebastian Vettel is loved at Ferrari

With the F1 season slowed down, he can’t substantiate himself on the track. It is not a great situation for Sebastian Vettel.

“I don’t think the break is good for any driver. They all love racing and are really part of their lives,” explains Binotto at Sky Sports.

“I know that Sebastian misses the normal course of events. And wants to be back on the track as soon as possible. But we can’t do that until everything is back to normal and the coronavirus is gone”, says the team principal of Ferrari.

“I think that his desire is to race at any time. Seb is an honest and straightforward person. He loves his job. That’s why he is so loved and appreciated at Ferrari”.

The biggest question is whether Sebastian Vettel will get the contract extension or not.