It's that time of year again.Will Sebastian Vettel send his fans into raptures and return to Formula 1? Here's why I feel shouldn't even entertain the idea.

Amidst the arrival of several rookies to the 2025 F1 grid, a coalition of season veterans remain on the grid. Fernando Alonso, Lewis Hamilton and Nico Hulkenberg (the only active drivers older than 30) continue to perform at a high level.

But the facts are, the stopwatch doesn’t lie and he wasn’t delivering the lap times at the end of his career.”