The aim was for these to be much more 'raceable' than before.

After all, there is not much point creating more 'raceable' cars if the tyres turn into liquorice when you're trying to follow another car.

“The cars are very quick now, but they are not raceable,” added the Briton, who said the new ones would be much more robust than current cars that shed their bodywork far too easily.

F1 revealed four categories on which it has been working: more raceable cars; more competitive grids; ensuring cars that are attractive; and a financially viable championship.

“The prime purpose of what we are doing is to try and produce cars that are more raceable... at the moment we’ve got designs that only lose 20 percent of their performance.”