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...

Lotus has become the latest Formula 1 team to insist it will never switch to customer cars.F1 chief executive Bernie Ecclestone outlined details of the plan earlier this week that he claims could happen "if we made a big enough effort." But despite the proposal dominating discussions at last week's...