Toro Rosso technical director James Key says he will be at the team "for some time to come" despite recent speculation of a move to Ferrari.
For the second season in a row Toro Rosso has produced a strong chassis, something which has raised the profile of Key in the paddock. He has recently been linked with a move to Ferrari by Italian media, while there were also reports he would follow Max Verstappen from Toro Rosso to Red Bull.
Key has played down those rumours and insisted he sees a long future at Toro Rosso.
"I've got a contract with Toro Rosso for some time to come, and there's a lot of work to do still," he said. "'m not thinking about anything else at the moment. I want to stick with where I am. It's a great group of people to work with and there's still plenty to do, so for now I'll be a Toro Rosso."
One of the jobs on the to-do list for Key is the team's 2017 car, which will be significantly different to this year's car due to the imminent regulation changes. Key explains why the late agreement on that set of rules has given every team on the grid an additional challenge.
"To be honest, the birth of the '17 regs was always a little bit long-winded and so we had a pretty good idea what the chassis direction was likely to be from a tyre and suspension viewpoint, at least dimensionally, but we took a little while to try to define the aero regs and the bodywork regs. So, in that respect, everyone's had a start-point, which is maybe a little later than you'd want for a very fresh set of regulations.
"But there was still plenty you could do on the principals of a '17 car beforehand, so we've been working on it for several months, as I'm sure everyone else here has. The split's difficult to define at the moment because it depends of which department you look at.
"But certainly on the aero side there's a pretty massive impact from all of this, so there's a big emphasis from us on the aero side. The same with simulation. The design office is yet to really pick up the big bits but certainly by after the August break they'll be pretty much 100 per cent on next year's car."