XPB Images Renault technical director Bob Bell says his team is already behind on 2017 development because the bigger teams will have started work "six months ago". Outline regulations for next season have been agreed by the F1 teams and are set to officially be approved at the end of April after recent uncertainty on how radical new aerodynamic regulations should be. Renault only took over the Lotus team in December and so faced a race against time to be ready for this season, but Bell acknowledges it is already on the back foot compared to rivals when it comes to next year. "In aerodynamic terms and also, I suppose, mechanical terms it is quite a different...
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