Wolff plays down 2025 Vettel comeback rumours

Toto Wolff is already fending off the early and wild rumours about who will replace Lewis Hamilton at Mercedes in 2025.

One of the wildest is that it may be the perfect opportunity for quadruple world champion Sebastian Vettel to mount a Formula 1 comeback.

"We talked yesterday," team boss Wolff told journalists including one for the German broadcaster RTL. "But it wasn't about him driving again.

"I think Sebastian has made the decision that he doesn't want to do that anymore."

Wolff insists that he currently as "no romantic thoughts" about a high profile replacement for Hamilton, given that he was just as surprised as the rest of the world about the seven time world champion's Maranello move.

There are reports Hamilton, 39, . . .