CNN | Four-time world champion Sebastian Vettel will leave Ferrari at the end of the season

(CNN) Harmonious it wasn’t.

After a particularly trying year plagued by mishaps and internal politics, four-time world champion Sebastian Vettel is set to leave Ferrari at the end of the current season, the team announced Tuesday.

Ferrari team principal Mattia Binotto said the difficult decision had been mutual but “the time had come to go our separate ways in order to reach our respective objectives.”

Vettel, who joined Ferrari in 2015, said financial matters had nothing to do with it and hoped he would share more “beautiful moments” in his time left with the team.  —more—