Toto Wolff has denied suggestions he is considering leaving his current position💝𝓡 at Mercedes to head up Aston Martin’s Formula 1 return in 2021.

The Mercedes F1 team boss is out of contract at the end of the year along w🌄ith star driver Lewis Hamilton. While both are expected to remain at Mercedes, the Austrian’s future has the subject of much talk in recent months. 

Wolff’s close ties and f🌸riendship with Canadian businessman and Racing Point owner Lawrence Stroll has resulꦆted in speculation linking him with a possible leadership role at Aston Martin when it returns to F1 as a fully-fledged works outfit in 2021. 

The l🃏uxury British sportscar maker has been struggling financially of late and has been hit hard by the uncertainty caused by the COVID-19 crisis. 

It received a much-needed boost earlier this week thanks to major new investment from the Stroll-led consortium, with Racing Point confirming on Wednesday that its rebrand to As🦩ton Marti⭕n works status will go ahead as planned next year. 

Wolff has moved to quash the rumours by fi🎃rmly dismissing he is about to walk away from the t🐲itle-winning Mercedes side and insisted a move to Aston Martin was “definitely out of the question”. 

“There is no truth to the rumours that I'm going to be CEO of🦹 As𒈔ton Martin,” Wolff is quoted as saying by Austrian broadcaster ORF. “I'm in a partnership with Daimler in the F1 team and that's my priority.

“An investment consor🦋tium led by Lawrence Stroll🙈 has taken over a share (Aston Martin). This is a financial investment. But an operational role on my part at Aston Martin is definitely out of the question.

“I am with Mercedes in our eighth year now and I really enjoy working with the people there. At the same time, I discuss our future with Ola ༺Källenius, our joint venture and how we want to continue together.

“The platform is working very well for Mercedes as a brand and therefಞore everything points to us working together for th💟e next few years.”

Wolff is understood to have been 🐲absent from a crucial recent team meeting involving all 10 participating outfits in which key issues over the future of the championship were discuss🥀ed amid the coronavirus pandemic. 

Racing Point CEO and team principal Otmar Szafnauer was questioned if thereꦆ was any truth to the speculation when he appeared as a guest on Sky Sports’ new Vodcast🐼 series.

"It's not really for me to say, that's a better question for Toto, but if you're asking me to💟 gu൩ess, Toto this year and next year will be running Mercedes Grand Prix and trying to make history by winning another world championship," Szafnauer said. 

"In all but one of the team principals' meetings, he's participated. 🎐He'll be on the next one, so I don't see him doing anything other than that."