Rival Formula 1 teams are better than Williams at exploiting the regulations, concedes its technical chief Pat Symonds.F1's technical regulations have been overhauled for 2017, creating faster, wider cars with bigger tires. Major rules overhauls can often give teams scope to find an edge by exploiting gray areas. Symonds admits...

Williams technical chief Pat Symonds (ABOVE) believes the challenge posed by the revamped 2017 regulations is more difficult than Formula 1 teams encountered in 2009.Teams will have to develop their solutions for 2017 with heavily restricted wind tunnel hours and staff numbers, compared to the last round of sweeping aerodynamic...

Romain Grosjean hopes the Lotus Formula 1 team can mimic 2009 world champion team Brawn GP and revive its flagging fortunes next season.Lotus has slumped from frontrunner to also-ran in this campaign, having fought for third with Ferrari in last year's constructors' title race. Brawn claimed the drivers' and constructors'...

Red Bull technical chief Adrian Newey says Formula 1 is at risk of stagnating if it continues to tighten its regulations.It has become commonplace for technical innovations in F1 to be outlawed on cost grounds or because they exploit grey areas in the rules, with the double diffuser, f-duct and...