Mercedes has offered a sneak peak at its 2017 car, set to be launched tomorrow."The first thing that stands out when you look at the 2017 cars is the striking delta-shape front wings," Mercedes says in a release. "Increased from a span of 1650mm to 1800mm, these swept-plane front wings,...

Red Bull's chief technical office Adrian Newey has been invigorated by the prospect of new aerodynamic regulations in 2017, according to team principal Christian Horner.Newey has overseen the design of championship-winning cars at Williams, McLaren and more recently Red Bull throughout an extensive career in Formula 1, but fell out...

McLaren driver Jenson Button believes next year's new-look Formula 1 cars will scare drivers again.The 2009 world champion feels Pirelli motorsport boss Paul Hembery's suggestion that the 2017 cars would drive like they are "on rails" thanks to a major hike in downforce are wide of the mark.Related StoriesButton compared...

Sebastian Vettel believes there remains "a lot of homework to do" for Ferrari, Red Bull, Mercedes and Pirelli ahead of the 2017 introduction of the new wider tires into Formula 1.Vettel was the first to sample next season's rubber when he drove a modified 2015 Ferrari at Fiorano at the...

Pirelli has just four months to make a product for Formula 1 it would normally spend two years in development for road cars.That is the enormity of the task facing the Italian manufacturer over the next few months as it prepares for the sweeping changes to the 2017 regulations.The tires...

Four-time Formula 1 world champion Alain Prost said he was disappointed with the show when he switched on the European Grand Prix and called television coverage a "disaster."The Baku street circuit received positive feedback from drivers, but the race was uneventful. Prost fears F1 will not attract new fans on...

Lewis Hamilton does not think the changes to the 2017 regulations will be good for Formula 1, but hopes he is proved wrong.The rules for 2017, featuring cars sporting different aero packages and with wider front and rear tires, were signed off last month.Hamilton is concerned that this change could...

Formula 1 teams finally reached a consensus on what could have been sweeping changes to the cars in 2017. After months of wrangling, the FIA has finally announced a draft set of technical regulations for 2017. Down from the original target of five to six seconds, the plan aims to...

Senior figures in Formula 1 have made much of the efforts to revolutionise the regulations for 2017, making the cars faster and improving the quality of the racing. The ideas have yet to be formalized, with a return to ground-effect aerodynamics being pushed for by some teams, while wider cars...

Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo says the reintroduction of wider tires to Formula 1 for 2017 will separate the better drivers from the rest of the field.Earlier this month, the Strategy Group unveiled plans for a series of changes, which included increasing the rear tire width from 360mm to 420mm, a...