Brawn planning to address 'unpopular' shark fins

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Ross Brawn has indicated that he will be looking into the controversial shark fins that have sprouted on many of 2017's car designs.

Formula One's new sporting boss said that while he was generally happy with the new rules. However, he wants to see some 'tweaks'.

In particular, Brawn wants to address that the piece of bodywork extending out from the roll-over hoop toward the rear wing.

"As always with new regulations there's a few little hiccups. We've got the unpopular shark fins on the back, and I think in time we need to address those," Brawn told the official Formula One website.

"Part of the objective of the new rules was to produce more exciting-looking cars. We don't want to spoil it with peripheral bits that take away from that.

"But that's normal with new regs," added Brawn. Formerly technical chief at Benetton and Ferrari, he was also the team boss of 2009 world champions Brawn GP.

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Other than the divisive fins, Brawn said that we has happy with how the cars looked this year. All cars look very different following the introduction of new tyre and downforce regulations.

"Obviously with the new cars and new rules we need to see how all the cars perform, and what effect that has. But I think it's an exciting season for the new philosophy, the new ideas that were hoping to bring into Formula One.

"I think that as a racing car it looks more exciting, I think the general proportion of the cars are better. Much faster, pretty impressive in the corners.

"The drivers that I've spoken to have told me that they're physically pretty challenging which is what was wanted."

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Andrew Lewin

Andrew first became a fan of Formula 1 during the time when Michael Schumacher and Damon Hill were stepping into the limelight after the era of Alain Prost, Nigel Mansell and Aryton Senna. He's been addicted ever since, and has been writing about the sport now for nearly a quarter of a century for a number of online news sites. He's also written professionally about GP2 (now Formula 2), GP3, IndyCar, World Rally Championship, MotoGP and NASCAR. In his other professional life, Andrew is a freelance writer, social media consultant, web developer/programmer, and digital specialist in the fields of accessibility, usability, IA, online communities and public sector procurement. He worked for many years in magazine production at Bauer Media, and for over a decade he was part of the digital media team at the UK government's communications department. Born and raised in Essex, Andrew currently lives and works in south-west London.