Mercedes Formula 1 technical chief James Allison says that while the revised design regulations for 2021 have “very worthy obj🎐ectives behind them”, he believes they will be hard to fully realise.

F1 unveiled its complete set of new regulations for the 2021 season at the United💖 States Grand Prix two months ago, laying out new sporting, financial and tech🌳nical frameworks for the team to work within.

The technical regulations are a radical diversion from the current ruleset, introducing new front and rear wing designs and underbody aerodynamics in a b💦id to try and improve the on-track spectacle by making it easier for cars to follow and race each other.

Allison was cautious about the real change the new regulations would bring to F1, butꦯ said Mercedes was relishing the chance to get its teeth into designing🍰 its first 2021-spec car.

“They have very worthy objectives be🥀hind them, but very difficult objectives to actually realise,” Allison said of the new rules.

“The proof of that pudding will be in the eati🐎ng. We’ll find out in 2021 how successful the overall package is in deli🎀vering on those very worthy but very difficult goals.

“That doesn’t really, at this point, interest a team any longer. A team just has the regulations in their hands and you’d be a weird F1 engineer if you weren’t excited by a fistful of new reguಞlations to digest, to look for an opportunity within and go off to try and make the fastest car you can from them.

“For us, probably the work of the last years - and particularly the cܫlimax of the last few weeks and months – has been a bit painful.

“But we are at the point now where it is the fun bit. You’ve got the pamphlet in your hand and you set to♔ work with it.”