Button: V8s make corners less challenging

That is the view of Honda Racing driver Jenson Button, who believes that the reduction in power allied to an increase in downforce will change the demands of certain tracks.

Having revealed that the tricky Turn Three at Barcelona was now flat, Button said he thought other corners would now also be full throttle.

"Yeah, I think so," he said. "Aerodynamically we are going to be a lot stronger next year than we have been this year, because that has always been the way.

"If the regulations haven't changed then you are just going to keep improving - so downforce is going to keep coming. So we will have more downforce and less power."

Despite his belief about corners now being flat, Button still thinks that F1 cars will not be easier to drive than they were before.

"It sounds like they are going to be easier to drive, but I don't think they will be," he said. "V8s are difficult engines to map really to try and get a smooth power curve. That is the important thing that everyone is going to be working on at the moment."

And amid suggestions that the lack of torque from the V8 engines means driving mistakes will be punished more, Button believes that overtaking opportunities may increase.

"If somebody makes a mistake in front of you then it's going to make it a lot easier to overtake I suppose," he said. "Because you don't have the torque to pull you out of sticky situations, it is probably better for overtaking in those circumstances."