World championship leader Nico Rosberg fears Formula 1’s powerbrokers have taken the wrong direction as the deadline to determine next year’s rules rapidly approaches. The sport’s hierarchy have until Friday evening to vote on a new set of regulations for 2017 which, it is hoped, will spice up the show and halt the decline in falling television audiences. Faster, wider and more-aggressive looking cars have already been agreed in principal, but the drivers, and indeed some of the teams, are against such a move. The Grand Prix Drivers’ Association, of which the majority of the grid are members, recently voiced their concerns in an open letter which took aim at the “obsolete and...
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