F1 drivers wary of new rules

Teams have until Saturday to approve the regulations by majority vote, rather than unanimous agreement, and have already hammered out most of the details in meetings over the past few months.

The plans are for cars and tyres to be wider and more aggressive looking, making them more exciting and harder to handle while also producing closer racing.

Drivers fear, however, that aerodynamic changes will instead make it harder for cars to follow and overtake.

“You hope that the engineers who know what’s going to happen - just like they knew with the qualifying - I hope they are proven wrong,” triple world champion Lewis Hamilton told reporters at the Russian Grand Prix.